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The Sunni's were being paid 30 million $$ a month by Petraeus to stop fighting.

That's a mistake; it's not Petraeus, it's the US taxpayer. I can remember when it used to be hard just to scare that kind of money up for ONE year, say for cancer research.

I say, we should pull out and let the Iraqis take care of each other.
Maybe even leave Afganistan. Let the warlords battle it out.
When they get tired of each other and all go to Pakistan to re-group; we can pick them off one by one then.

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