More troubling is that the Iraqi insurgency has been partly funded by oil-sector corruption.
That clearly the Iraqi insurgency started romping up in the spring of 2003 and just kept going since then.
At the same time, the Iraqi insurgency's apparent lack of a coherent programme other than violence has whittled away much outside support.
Perhaps most notably, Rumsfeld has survived reversals in the war in Iraq, including a post-invasion plan that's been widely criticized as inadequate, a persistent Iraqi insurgency and allegations of murder by U.S. troops in Iraq.
The State Department has said that Mitchell's trip will be followed by other U.S. missions -- including a delegation of U.S. military commanders who will discuss joint efforts to combat the Iraqi insurgency, officials said.
They are leaving the sectarian conflict to the Iraqi police and focusing on the insurgency.
In the best of circumstances, says Toby Dodge of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the task of training enough Iraqi troops to withstand the current insurgency would take at least five years, probably longer.
U.S. troops have battled a persistent insurgency since the invasion in March 2003 that toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
In Iraq, they have battled a brutal insurgency, trained new security forces and given the Iraqi people the opportunity to forge a better future.
He had plans in place before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom to employ the Fedayeen paramilitary forces and to conduct an insurgency.
But it seems now, if you look at the Iraqi map, in the last 48 hours or so, the insurgency has spread to almost every single town, Baghdad, Kufa, Basra, Najaf, Nasiriya, Ramadi.
Increasingly, our folks have already served one combat tour, so they've practiced counter-insurgency as an American and they are thus better able to advise Iraqi Security Forces on how to do it themselves.
Also Tuesday, U.S. officials said the Iraqi government has agreed to a timetable addressing the critical issues facing the country, including the Sunni insurgency and the proliferation of sectarian militias.
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