Estimates are that over a thousand have died in Anbar in January, most of them terrorists. In 2013 the death toll was 8,900 for all of Iraq and only ten percent of those were terrorists while the majority were Shia civilians. ISIL is believed to have lost heavily in the Anbar fighting. This is largely because ISIL is trying to hold territory and that means they have to stand a fight and are then vulnerable to artillery and air attack as well as the armored vehicles and more heavily armed and better trained troops of the army.
The war in Iraq may not have been responsibly ended, as our leadership likes to believe, but I would like to point out that under Saddam, Iraq was a producer of terrorism.
Now Iraq hunts and kills the same terrorists we hunt and kill. So now there are more good jihadis.
We want this partnership to continue, don't we?
