Wes Clark just schooled Joe Scarborough. [View All]

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He attributed the Sunni awakening to the Saudis working the tribes and said Iran's pullback from chaos in Northern Iraq was also a factor. He said Iraq was a buffer between all these external competing factions. Interesting.

Lastly, he credited the change in tactics by Petraeus to Rumsfeld leaving. He said more troops were always a good thing, but these factors are just as or more important than the surge.