"Saddam is an agent for the Americans," Jaafer said. "It's known that America, Saddam and the Takfiris (Sunni extremists) are on the same side."
Those feelings help explain why the United States has found Iraq so difficult to navigate. Neither Sunnis who backed Saddam nor Shiites who were his victims fully trust the United States as a friend
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070824bcusiraq_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytopDropping out in the middle of the fighting would seem like a masterstroke on the part of G. Bush 41 if the outcome had been the successfull uprieing he had encouraged .
As it is the side that we whipped felt angry with us , and the sde we allowed to be whipped feel betrayed, the worst of both is what was risked and the dice came up snake eyes.
A simular decision can be made in the near future, have we learned anything that helps us understand when to relinquish control ?
