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 [International Military Forums] Why The Surge Worked: Talk to others, however, and the unusual and critical role he played these past two years becomes clear. Gen. Keane helped conceive the new Iraq war strategy and then sell it to the White House. He advised on its implementation, ...

 [Commentary » Contentions] How We Got It Right: “Whether they be Sunni, Shia or Kurd, anyone who was being touched by that war after four years was fed up with it. And I think once a solution was being provided, once they saw the Americans were truly willing to take risks and die to protect their women and children and their way of life, they decided one, to protect the Americans, and two, to turn in the enemies that were around them who were intimidating and terrorizing them;

 [tarikh alam al-islami] Iran support the Iraqi militia’s: When we remember the speeches of the Iranian revolutionary leaders since 1979 through 1988 (when the war with Iraq ended), we recall also how they were calling the peoples of the Arab Gulf states - and the others - to arise against their governments. The first years of the Iranian revolution were indeed those of its exportation, and this was also the very cause behind the cautious but effective involvement of the Arab Gulf states, the USA and the Western states, in assisting Saddam’s war against Iran.

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