Why doesn't this get more play?

[cavanaghjam]

Apparently we are paying for insurgents in Sadr City to turn in their weapons. The ready availability of weapons was surely exacerbated by the decision not to guard or destroy armories on the march to Baghdad (though we did guard the oil fields). If this were a viable strategy (and I doubt that appealing to venality is going to work with people willing to die in order to drive American troops from their land) why wasn't it tried months ago? It sure seems as if now we are using taxpayer dollars to bribe people who will not be bribed (a foreign concept to Bushies, I'm sure), to make Iraq appear more peaceful for a time, though not in reality be more peaceful, to cover up the errors of this administration and help the Bush campaign. The silence of the SCLM in this matter is deafening.