Possibilities in Iraq

Possibilities in Iraq
Right now most of Iraq is relativly peacefull, the only violent provinces are Anbar, Diyala, and Baghdad. Anbar is getting better because the tribes are uniting against Al Qaida, Baghdad is getting better because American and Iraqi forces are not under political pressure to not engage militia's. And Diyala right now is experiencing more attacks, this hopefully will end soon with the coming increase of US troops in that province. The only thing the US should be doing in Iraq that we aren;t doing is transferring provinces over to the Iraqis. For example this article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501237.html

talks about two provinces that should of been turned over in september. The article goes further to say that they were moved back to be tranferred in January or Febuary of this year. January and Febuary have gone by and they still haven't been transferred. Another good example is in the northern Kurdish area's three provinces Dahuk, Sulamaniyah and Irbil have been ready for transition since July of last year and still haven't been transferred yet. These are troops that could be going home or supporting the intensified opereations in Baghdad, Anbar or Diyala. As Americans I believe we should bring our concerns about these problems to the main media. The main media could bring this to the attention of congress and the senate and make it an issue that they have to work on. Other then our strategy seems to be working deaths in Baghdad have gone down 50% since the operation began. Were also building joint security stations in neighborhoods and patroling more to provide security for the population of Baghdad.