Originally Posted by moon

BDaily;


Underpinning America's failures in Iraq has been the arrogant dispelling of Iraqi opposition. Your diminishment of the strength of anti-American feeling in Iraq is typical of that of the authors of those failures.
You probably don't believe that al-Sadr controls most of the levers of the stumbling automaton which is the US/al-Maliki 'pact'. It's still about the oil and Iraqis know it. Only the fuzzy-headed, mainly American media victims, believe that it's anything to do with 'freedom' for Iraq, the spreading of 'demahcracy' or saving peace-loving christians-in-waiting from the evils of an 'invading' Islam.
However, I repeat the gist of post #8;


Now where have we heard that before ?