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Held our fire? Are you serious? We do not have the ability to get him. If we did we would have a long time ago. Last time we, or rather the Iraqis, tried to take his army on directly the Iraqis ended up basically surendering. If he wanted to he could march on Al Maliki and take his desk from him without us being able to do anything about it. That's what you get when you invade a country with a fraction of the troops your own counterinsurgency manual says you would need to pacify an occupied country and then spend four years pretending that everything is going according to plan. If we had done it right the first time he wouldn't be a problem to us now.