spent, around 25 billion on the roughly 900,000 iraqi soldiers, police and guards supposedly ready to take over when u.s. forces left. they weren't ready and neither was the political system. prime minister nuri al malaki, a shia, neglected the sunni minority. now the radical islamists have become the vanguard of sunni revenge. they have been joined by remnants of saddam hussein's bath party and their army. they are sunnis, too and want to use the extremists to get back into power. and while sunnis and shiites settle old scores, iraq's third community, the kurds, is taking more ground. >> this is a city. >> reporter: the governor of kirkuk, which kurdish forces took over last week when iraqi troops ran away before the extremists even arrived. do you think if there had been a