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Originally Posted by dilloduck  Maybe if the central government could pull it's shit together all three factions in Iraq could benefit form oil deals. Something wrong with doing business with them before they pull it together? |
Just look at what Robert Gates said:
"Military efforts to capture or kill terrorists are likely to be subordinate to measures to promote local participation in government and economic programs to spur development, as well as efforts to understand and address the grievances that often lie at the heart of insurgencies," the document said. "For these reasons, arguably the most important military component of the struggle against violent extremists is not the fighting we do ourselves, but how well we help prepare our partners to defend and govern themselves."
So when bush undermines Iraq's central goverment and shuts out the Sunni's from sharing in the oil revenues, he us going against what Robert Gates is saying here. Get it???