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Ago, they said they were leaving behind an iraqi security force that they could hold on to what they were calling the security gains, but we saw that fall apart almost as quickly as american boots left iraqi soil with iraqi prime minister al malika employing power around himself and alienating the sunni population, allowing the disenchantment to grow. and long story simplified and very short is that that anger eventually grew, allowing an organization like isis to capitalize on it and really move forward at the speed that we ve been seeing it plowing through these various predominantly sunni territories, reaching at this stage a distance only about an hour away from baghdad. now, nic robertson, let s bring you into the discussion. nic, you re there in baghdad. i m keen to get a sense of what the mood is there. the iraqi forces and in particular the militias, the ....

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