Elections do not make a democracy. The iraqi election was like a census, and the shiite radicals won.

The iraqi government is made up of shiite sectarian militias, you will never convince them to fight the shiite sectarian militias. Progress will be made in fighting sunni insurgents and sunni terrorists, but the iraqi government will make no progress fighting the shiite militas.

the problem with the iraqi army isn't training and it isn't weapons, it's loyalty.

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984