"Half of them are JAM. They'll wave at us during the day and shoot at us during the night," said 1st Lt. Dan Quinn, a platoon leader in the Army's 1st Infantry Division, using the initials of the militia's Arabic name, Jaish al Mahdi. "People (in America) think it's bad, but that we control the city. That's not the way it is. They control it, and they let us drive around. It's hostile territory."
What's the point of us being there? Our "best friends" there are allied with our current no. 1 enemy. Our enemies hate our no. 1 enemy. Why? All for the sake of internal U.S. politics. From the beginning this war was about Republican dominance under the leadership of Bush. They selected a war that they knew would split the Democrats. Of course all of that has changed and its about saving the political ass of George W. Bush. One thing it isn't about is the interests of the Republic.