Originally Posted by The Jovial One

...of course the Sunni Awakening had nothing to do with it, nor did the fact that the al Sadr brigades were told to lay down their weapons BEFORE the "surge" started...

... and let's CONTINUE to "conveniently forget" the PURPOSE of the "surge" was NOT so much just to bring down violence, but to create conditions where the Iraqi government would reconcile and get their poopie into one sock...