[MNJohnnie]

Also here is a Yahoo story about how we are now using former enemy Sunni to our advantage even though some of the higher ups including Maliki are not real hot about it. We are doing the right thing. It’s here:

This is how Counter Insurgencies end, not with a bang but a whimper. You get the moderate elements of the Insurgency to turn to the Govt side and you kill the hard core elements. Successful Counter Insurgencies always end with a political deal, not a standard military victory.

This is why so many conventional military types, political analysis, and average Americans have such a tough getting a grip on Iraq. Iraq is Limited War, not Total War. It does not work like their Hollywood actions movies tell them war is suppose to work.

Iraq is how most wars are, and will be, waged in the Modern age. We have been spoiled by Gulf War 1 and Kosovo etc to think we can win easily, quickly and painlessly. We can, in a conventional fight. That is why our foes will NOT fight us conventionally.

[rodguy911]

Exactly!! Most people can't even spell asymmetrical much less gather the meaning of the word. This is a war in which the true nature is not reported in the msm and our leaders have been demagogued so much for political purposes that the fact that we have a brillinat strategist like Gen.Petraeus who has devised a strategy that will and is working is mind blowing.

I salute everyone involved and support the troops and their impending victory.

Any one who tries to put a time line on troop removal of what we are doing in Iraq is a true traitor in every meaning of the word.