Guy covering for Maddow, talking about Sunni Awakening Fighters

[rusty quoin]

walking away from their association with the U.S. ...I don't know where he sourced this from, but it's about their not getting paid.

Chris Hedges had warned of the problem of these 80,000 Sunnis, armed by us, angry at us for getting rid of their Iraq military. Many of them are former military and all getting $300 each per month from us. (The only reason they work with us.) Hedges decribes when all hell breaks loose:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080225_the_calm_before_the_conflagration/

If the U.S. begins, as promised, to withdraw troops, it will be harder to keep these antagonistic factions apart. The cease-fire by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, extended a few days ago, could collapse. And if that happens, a civil war, unlike anything U.S. forces have experienced in Iraq, will begin. Such a conflagration, with the potential to draw in neighboring states and lead to the dismemberment of Iraq, would be the final chapter of the worst foreign policy blunder in American history.