Symmetry wrote:
Well, the number of soldiers being killed has declined sharply recently.
February was a very quiet month, military casualties wise, but it seems like an abberation. March is already shaping up to be worse, if current attack trends continue.
Also, the Sunni/Shiite violence that the recent bombings seem to have been intended to create has been kept in check. Also, I wasn't able to find anything on problems with the Kurds.
There's been sectarian violence up in the Kurdish region.
Given that the new council virtually guarantees that there will be a Kurd in the Presidency Council (and with that a veto over the apointment of the PM) they don't have to worry about repression, unlike their cousins in Syria, where there really is an escalating problem.
But the Shi'ites don't like the concept. Also, it seems the Kurds think the constitution somehow guarantees them an independent state.
I remember it being predicted in the media that this war wouldn't be a walkover like Gulf War I, that after Saddam fell the Shiites would start killing Sunnis, that Saddam would gas the Kurds again to remove a threat at his rear, that there would be a huge humanitarian crisis, etc.
Which media?
