US-taxdollar paid "awakening" members are aiding insurgents to kill Americans

[Thorgrim]

Relevant Parts to the topic quoted:

homegrown Sunni insurgent groups not directly tied to AQI remain committed to fighting US forces and driving Iraq's Shiite led-government from power.

They have also made significant inroads into the Sunni militias, dubbed "Sons of Iraq," created by the US military to fight AQI. While Petraeus said again Wednesday that these US-backed militias had "some former insurgents," the IAI's Abu Abdullah, who goes by a nickname, says he would not dream of moving around if it were not for help from these militias and Sunni elements inside government security forces.

Echoing concerns about the true allegiance of these US-funded militias, Sen. Joseph Biden (D) of Delaware raised the prospect in his remarks Tuesday that these groups may one day "turn their guns on us."

Requests to the US military in Iraq for comment on the activities of non-AQI insurgent groups have gone unanswered.

He also maintains that while the US has succeeded in driving a wedge between AQI and Sunnis in Anbar Province, many of the tribesmen there who are now on the American payroll are still aiding IAI and other insurgent groups.

Members of these US-backed militias now number almost 91,000 and are paid a total of $16 million a month in salaries by the US. They are often lauded by President Bush in his speeches on Iraq.

The US military now calls these Sunni militias "Sons of Iraq." Iraqis simply refer to all these groups as sahwas. But the Shiite-led government is resisting US pressure to fold these groups, especially the ones in Baghdad and Diyala provinces, into the Army and police. "Trust me, the sahwas are ultimately with the resistance, heart and mind," says Abu Abdullah.

"The resistance is in a much better shape now than it was seven months ago; many young men who have never fought in the past have just joined the resistance. They are fighting under numerous labels to evade infiltration," AMSI's chief, Hareth al-Dhari, who is now outside Iraq, told the London-based Quds al-Arabi newspaper last week.

In Iraq, Sunni insurgents still aim to oust U.S., Shiites | csmonitor.com

Mahdi operates in Baghdad and southern Iraq...Al Qaeda in Iraq has been forced to operated out of the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul...Anbar is pretty quiet...that leaves areas like Salah ad Din Province and Diyala Province under control of a combination of "Sons of Iraq", local tribes...and accepted insurgents...only the last group would spend their money planting IEDs to kill Americans

By process of deduction, IAI has killed 3 Americans in the past three days

Let me simplify: We are paying millions of dollars for "Sons of Iraq" to not attack us, and GenDP said this was a "good bargain"/bribe...they take this money, enjoy their local cities, and then while on the US payroll, give aid to insurgents killing American soldiers RIGHT NOW

Your tax dollars at work to kill American soldiers

[Ardentfrost]

American methodology for fixing problems

Step 1: Recognizing the problem - "Oh shit, this bad thing is happening!"
Step 2: Brainstorming for a solution - "Maybe we can just throw money at it and it'll go away!"
Step 3: Implementation of solution - "Alright, let's either tax more or increase inflation so that people end up paying more or just make more bonds and raise taxes later"
Step 4: Normalize Implementation - "Oh shit, this other bad thing is happening!"

We're in an endless loop of spending.