Petraeus is Paying The Sunni Sheiks to Side With U.S.

So, the question arises, Why the hell weren't we paying Iraqis (Sunni, Shia, whomever, to side with us all along, by hiring them to re-build their own country instead of Halliburton and other pet corporations of the administration and to secure their own country, instead of American mercenaries like Blackwater.

Then again, maybe we have been paying them to turn on each other. Maybe that is where much of the lost money, weapons and military equipment went.

Thing is, these warlords will take as much money as we will give them and all the weaponry they can find, but the minute the money is cut off, they will switch sides. This is one of the tactics by which we will be finally defeated. Bush is just trying to buy time. This strategy is going nowhere and they all know it.

No one should be so delusional as to think that any Iraqi is the natural ally of the U.S., now.

They all have the same enemies and none of those names are Arabic. They are Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld and others known as well to them as to us.

We are the problem. How can we,therefore, be the solution.

The snippet below is from a London Times article awhile back.

"American forces are paying Sunni insurgents hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash to switch sides and help them to defeat Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

"The tactic has boosted the efforts of American forces to restore some order to war-torn provinces around Baghdad in the run-up to a report by General David Petraeus, the US commander, to Congress tomorrow....

"In a letter to US troops, the general wrote that 'local Iraqi leaders are coming forward, opposing extremists and establishing provisional units of neighbourhood security volunteers.'

"The Sunday Times has witnessed at first hand the enormous sums of cash changing hands. One sheikh in a town south of Baghdad was given $38,000 (£19,000) and promised a further $189,000 over three months to drive Al-Qaeda fighters from a nearby camp...."

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