An Iraq Reality Update

clipped from www.strategypage.com The Shia Arabs proved more formidable than expected, and Shia death squads killed thousands of Sunni Arabs, often chosen at random. Al Qaeda showed that it could infuriate the Shia Arabs, but not defend Sunni Arabs against Shia retaliation. At first, growing Sunni Arab resistance to al Qaeda was met with terrorism. Sunni Arab leaders were kidnapped or killed by al Qaeda. That produced a growing number of Sunni Arabs that disliked al Qaeda, but was not organized well enough to resist the terrorists. This went on for over a year, until the U.S. Surge offensive began earlier this year. This put American troops into Sunni Arab communities, preventing al Qaeda from terrorizing the civilians. The Sunni Arabs then organized their own self-defense forces and pointed out the al Qaeda among them. Over the Summer, the al Qaeda organization was taken apart because of this cooperation.

In case you get your news from "journalists". I'll stop there.

And no, Iraq will never become a fairy tale. But I'm starting to believe their government will become more honest than ours.

Especially when I see our Porkmeisters berating Condi Rice about Iraqi corruption.

Pot. Kettle. Black.