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To comment on uncbob's comment. We have to realize the hard core insurgents are few in numbers as the country slowly recovers from a very long time of brutal rule.
Take if I may, for example, Iyad Allawi, a secular Sunni who as we all recognize was the first installed PM of Iraq.
He during the early Saddam years went along with the program, most likely with contempt for the ruling goons, and their leader to keep a job in the government, and his position in the Baathist Party.
He paid a price when he defected, once he realized things where getting totally out of hand, and his country was being ruled by a common street criminal. His scars on his neck etc., bear witness to the change of heart.
Likewise, one upon carefull examination/reflection, can see where tens of thousands of Baathist followed suit.
And the same goes for their regular military. Many have come out and made it clear they went along with the program to save their jobs, lives, and the lives of their families.
He turned a complete about face, so to speak. He did not have to risk his life these recent years to come back to Iraq to attempt to participate in rebuilding a new country based on western democratic principals.
He could have stayed in London or elsewhere.
Likewise IMHO, we shall see growing numbers of Iraqi that have for a number of often very widely different reasons say enough is enough, and recognize democracy and a nation free of sectarian killings is worth working toward.
I am not lecturing. Perhaps simply in most cases putting in writing what many of us in this juncture in time accept as the reality taking place in Iraq.
Many of us often kid about how poor widdle Nancy Pelosi or some of her side kicks and clowns like Harry Reid feel in recent times regarding the change of tide in Iraq. But think for a moment, perhaps you are all light years ahead of me on this one.
Think of how the many various factions in Iraq and throughout the ME, and the Far East must feel as they see the Iraqi people saying no to all the Islamic instigated violance in their country.
I bet UBL and Wahariri are a lot more sad in recent developments then the goon squads within the liberal far left movement.
And throw in the ex KGB and more recent FSB, for their long term goals to pit radical Islamic groups against the west, with the US in emphasis.
They are all on the lossing ticket.