[bukkdems]

“Not true and a very ignorant statement.”

Can you refute this quote from Joe Klein in Time?

“As I reported in September 2005, there is also the scandalous reality that an alliance with the tribes was proposed by U.S. Army intelligence officers as early as October 2003 and rejected by L. Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority on the grounds that “tribes are part of the past. They have no place in the new democratic Iraq.”

[Justa]

Signing an "alliance" with the Anbar tribes in October 2003 would most likely have been a ruse. They were and probably still are criminal tribes. ,p>Fighting and killing off many of their soliders went a long way in molding the type of relationship we have with them now. It's sort of like the British and the Zulus or Ghurkas.

We earned their respect their way and will likely keep it for a long time -unless the politicians screw it up.