By Steven Vincent

In Fallujah, Dhia and I visit the headquarters of the Islamic Political Party of Iraq. There, I asked a Sunni cleric seated on his diwan, or long couch, why he thought his Shia brethren had proven more cooperative with the U.S. He offered a mirthless smile. “The Shia think America liberated them from Saddam. But America did not come to liberate, they came for oil. America must leave immediately.” But without the presence of U.S. troops, wouldn’t Iraq slide into terrorist violence? “Let the soldiers leave, peace will come,” the cleric replied, fingering his prayer beads. “They are the terrorists who kill the Iraqi people.”

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