Is it Petraeus Or Betray us ?

Yesterday as most of the world did , I watched the Petraeus report , I was waiting for the statistics , and if the statistics I saw are true then everything is working very well , and Iraq will be a very peaceful country very soon , what a surprise , am I living in Iraq or what?I'm not saying that the graphs and statistics are fake, but they are inaccurate , let's start with the statistics about civilian casualties ; first of all in this time of the year most Iraqis leave Iraq for a vacation as they have no college or schools so the parents can take a leave and go for some peaceful weeks in the neighboring countries , What i want to say is that Iraq is almost empty at this time of the year , so there are fewer numbers to die and as I said it's the summer holiday so even if they are in Iraq they wouldn't go out much , another thing is that there has been remodeling in the neighborhoods specially in Baghdad that means Sunnis live in Sunni neighborhoods now , so as Shiite. So there are few mix-sects neighborhoods now in addition to that , people realized the danger of going into another sect's area , even if they have some important things there they would send someone who is from the same sect to do the job , people live in their neighborhoods now , they don't live in Baghdad , that was another reason for the decline in the curve of the civilian casualties and sectarian violence .

Also there is something I couldn't understand , how could they count the number of the dead civilians , explosions , attacks or the rate of sectarian violence?I'll take them one by one , let's start with count of dead civilians ; even if the count is right , twice the number of the dead are missing civilians and this is something every Iraqi knows ; when someone is missing for more than 3 months then he is surly dead , although he is not registered dead , I personally know many people like that , and even if he is dead and his family found his dead body and he was a Sunni they wouldn't go to register him dead because Al-mahdi Army controls the morgue in which they count the dead bodies and that would put his family's life in danger , I believe the count of dead bodies are not accurate .

Now let's see about the explosions , attacks and sectarian violence how could they count that? every day I hear explosions but they don't mention it , then sure they wouldn't count it , just like today , there were two loud explosions which I heard but no one said anything about it!

How could they count the attacks ? no one can do that ? and the sectarian violence is something that can't be counted no matter what the effort is , for example as the case of my family when they were threatened by Al-Qaeda first and then by Al-Mahdi Army , my father didn't go to police because they are corrupted , and they might be in the Mahdy-Army so he will jeopardise our lives if he did that.What my father did is what all the Iraqis do , this is the smartest thing to do , even in my case that I talked in my earliest post "I shouldn't be alive" I didn't report it , what I want to say is that sectarian violence can't be measured and even if I believed that the explosions and car bombs are less than before as the report said , I wouldn't believe that sectarian violence decreased no matter what graphs they show me , I live in Baghdad and I know it , it's the same if not getting higher.

But the withdrawal of the US troops specially in this time is not a good idea , that's what I think.

I join many people who are worried about the Iranian influence and control over Iraq after the US leaves , and as most of the people know that Iran already have a great influence and control over Iraq and Iraqi government. What will happen when the US troops leaves ? a massacre will happen because Ahmedi Najad have officially announced that Iran is ready to fill the gap that the US troops will leave behind???!!! he is ready to invade Iraq!.

But I agree with general Petraeus when he talked about the success in the Anbar province , I know it's not completely safe but it can't be compared to what it used to be and it's way better than Baghdad , that's what I have been hearing and what I have seen by my self on my way to Syria , the Anbar council controlled things well , and as Petraeus said it's a model and can't be used in all parts of Iraq . Anbar never suffered from sectarian violence because it's populated by Sunnis only and most of who lives there are from certain tribes that has been there for ages , what I want to say is that peace can be brought to Anbar a lot more easier than Baghdad if it's people decided to have peace.

There was something that really annoyed me ,most of the time he talked about Al-Qaida like it's the only enemy for Iraqis and Americans as well , and like it's the only thing that destroys Iraq every day , what about Al-Mahdi Army?what About Badir Brigade who killed two of my friends? what about the Islamic Army in Iraq? what about all the other sectarian militias? why don't the US troops arrest Moqtada Al-Sadir ? his militia is killing the Iraqis and attacking the US troops , why isn't he arrested? this is the question that I really want someone to answer it.

Today is 11th of September , I'd like to give my condolences to the familes of the casualties of the terrorism attacks , and I want them to know that we know exactly how do they feel , and I'd like to remind all the people of the world that every day large numbers of civilians die in Iraq by the terrorists just because they are not of them , Iraqis are the daily victim of terrorism . when the US government invaded Iraq by the name of war against terrorism and caused this loss of security which attracted the terrorists to Iraq (there was no presence for Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization in Iraq before the war) and caused daily Iraqi casualties along with the American people (soldiers) casualties , so it's clear that they didn't fix the problem or protected there people , they only made the problem bigger.and if the troops leave now , the problem will go bigger .