"the battle against the Sunnis"
Slip of the tongue? Or a trial balloon indication that "we" want to campaign against Sunnis with our allies the Shia?
...I fully understand -- let me finish. Secondly, is the battle against the Sunnis -- Sunni extremists -- some of them Saddamists, some of there are al Qaeda, but all of them aiming to try to drive the United States out of Iraq before the job is done.