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The us armed and has been paying the sunni militia and shieks in anbar province to basically bribe them into laying low for a while.
McCain Previews General Election Strategy: Dems Were Wrong About Iraq 2009
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It was primarily several factors, buying off the sunnis in anbar which started 6 months before the announcement of the "surge", the mahdi army cease fire, and the ethnic cleansing that occured in baghdad.
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The us military basically gave control of anbar to the sunnis, which is what the sunnis were fighting for.
McCain: Bringing Troops Home From Iraq "Not Too Important" 2009
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U.S. military vehicles rendered useless by improvised explosive devices litter a military scrap yard at Camp Al Asad in Iraq's anbar province.
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If we drilled in anbar and off-shore it would take ten years for the oil to come on line and the impact on the price of gas would be negligible.
Quinnipiac: Obama Ahead In Florida, Ohio And Pennsylvania 2009
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The sunnis got the impression through the cash and the weapons that the us military was helping in their defense so that they wouldn't get crushed by the shiites, so the violence went down in anbar province dramatically.
McCain Campaign Attack On Alleged Iraq Flip-Flop By Obama Is A Stretch 2009
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The us military bought and armed the sunni sheiks in anbar, which was occurring before the troop escalation.
McCain: Bringing Troops Home From Iraq "Not Too Important" 2009
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"But McCain is addressing this like an adult not some inexperienced teenager who just want what he wants because he wants it.". .messing up when exactly the anbar awakening was, and not understand rather pedestrian geography?
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Not any longer He was "disembedded" after he posted a picture of a Marine killed in the bombing in anbar on June 26th.
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Three other troops were killed in anbar province in the past 24 hours.
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