In December, 2006, President George W. Bush ordered a surge of American troops into Baghdad and its environs in a last hope they could buy time for the Iraqi government to broker an agreement that could then stop the violence.
No deal emerged, but something else happened: the violence itself had become so extreme that the Sunnis themselves had turned on Al Qaeda, and turned to American forces for help.
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