When we go, there will not be civil war between the religions, but there may well be a war between the Iraqi people and the terrorists. We are housing thousands of terrorist prisoners. Once we are gone, there will be far fewer prisoners because they will be put on trial and executed according to Iraqi law and the UN will have nothing to say about it.
"...Once we are gone, there will be far fewer prisoners because they will be put on trial and executed according to Iraqi law and the UN will have nothing to say about it."
You got your whole response right, in my opinion. We continue to get such a barrage of mostly horse manor info no wonder many Freepers are a bit confused. Just an example of the supposed increasing terrorist insurgency. OK how come as our Marine units move into many areas of Al Anbar that where left untouched a half year back we see no major fights, no resistance from Abu Musab Zarqawi's goon squads.
As our Marines moved into cities such as Rawah, Hit, Ramadi and Haditha just to name a few, hardly any action after the initial entry was seen. These towns have been reported for going on two years as housing main terrorist cells, etc.. As our Marines and now Iraqi army units move through the many many towns spotted throughout Al Anbar, the only resistence we meet is the very unfortunate Marine being KIAed due to walking or riding over a IED. No battles of any type.
As usual the only things we see are the occasional suicide bomber that gets through check points, or in some cases some goons might blow up a bunch of people attending Friday night prayers in a mosque. Does that represent a growing in intensity resistance? And some day when you all read the books you may find it interesting just how many of the insurgents turn out to be common criminals (no different then some stupid un-educated drug gang leader type) simply
looking for easy money.