06-12-2014, 03:55 AM
The US had chalked up some significant successes in courting Sunni groups to help fight al-Qaeda-linked jihadist terrorism. Without the Americans these arrangements quickly broke down. Sunnis found themselves increasingly the victims of the Shia-dominated government's security forces.
BBC News - Six things that went wrong for Iraq
Looks like pulling out was a big mistake, although Maliki and Syria next door arn't exactly helping