Bush's Socialist Program in Iraq Falling Apart!

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Sunni security volunteers who turned against al-Qaida complained Saturday the Iraqi government has not paid them in months, with some threatening to quit a movement widely credited with helping turn the tide against insurgents.

Last October, the Iraqi government assumed responsibility for paying the more than 90,000 security volunteers, known variously as Sons of Iraq or Awakening Councils, and bringing some of them into the army and police.
The U.S. had been paying them since they began turning against al-Qaida in 2006, joining forces with the Americans to hunt down extremists.
"We have not received our salaries in two months," said Ahmed Suleiman al-Jubouri, a leader of a group that mans checkpoints in south Baghdad. "We will wait until the end of April, and if the government does not pay us our salaries, then we will abandon our work."

The unspoken secret success of the surge was a socialist program.
 
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