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Old 12-15-2007, 11:02 AM
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It's a pretty big deal.

But it still comes down to the fact that the improved security situation is largely due to several Sunni tribal leaders switching sides because they were fed up with AQ.
No, that's an oversimplification. The Sunnis got tired of fighting the US AND the government AND the shiite militias AND al qaeda. Unlike the al qaeda religious psychotics, it IS possible for rational iraqis to see that all the violence is going nowhere, and to want a normal life.
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