Political Quotes

“the unspoken inevitability we face is that U.S. troops will eventually leave Iraq. Eighty percent of Iraqis want us to leave now. They now see us as occupiers, not liberators. American politicians say we must save Iraqis from an even more violent civil war. But that civil war is underway because of the American presence. It is fueling Sunni hostility toward Shia collaborators. If the American forces weren't there, Iraqi Shia security forces would no longer be serving the interests of foreign infidels against other fellow Iraqis. It would open the door to the reenlistments of many of the best trained and experienced former Iraqi military and police professionals. The preponderance of power now lies with the Shia and the Kurds. The Sunni fighters have only small arms and make-shift explosive devices. The insurgents don't have access to Saddam's tanks and helicopters. Furthermore, we have equipped the Shia and Kurds with much superior weaponry and they are vastly superior in number. If the Americans end their occupation, the insurgents' resistance will lose its purpose. The foreign jihadi element in Iraq is numerically insignificant. The vast bulk of the resistance has little connection to al-Qaeda or its offshoots. The colonel in charge of cleaning out the insurgency in Tall Afar said they were fighting foreign jihadi fighters coming in from Syria.…”