The real story of real people on the street in Iraq provides a grim view of developments there. Quite gripping. The assessment that things are getting worse runs strongly counter to the bush/mccain story that things are going honky dory.

We are paying Sunni militia's to not attack us. What if we stop paying? We are arming both sides in a civil war. Will they break themselves on each other, and leave us the country? Is this engineering the "peace of the grave"?

The author did go to Iraq, but only spoke with a very narrow segment of the population, basically looking for what he wanted to hear. He should have consulted experienced reporters such as Michael Yon who know the country well and have continuously filed accurate reporting from Iraq, before trying to write this opinion piece. The article would have been more accurate and closer to reality.