POL_S 428 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Al Anbar Governorate
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Reasons for the us reluctance to arm and help sunni tribes. Saw the sunni tribes as saddam loyalists. Sunni tribes were at times loyal to saddam. Had missed the conflict between tribes and saddam. Tended to see the tribes with the same image they viewed saddam (rogue) Imperial history with british taught them that relationship can be dangerous but beneficial. The local elite chosen by british were sunnis and the sunni tribes in al anbar assumed, based on this history, that this would be repeated in the upcoming invasion and likely occupation. Consequently, the form of imperial image they held was the benevolent for. Hussein, put them in charge, and form a new iraq. As sheikh aakab al gaood put it we know that the goal of. American forces in iraq was to liberate iraq. After 2003, most of the people thought positively of the liberator. Staff brigadier general haqi isma"eel ali hameed concurred, saying.
