Iraq: Expect an upsurge in violence No.38

OK, now you gotta expect an upsurge in violence because, uh, the elections are coming ...no, uh....because Iraq needs a government of unity, wrong, damn....uh....expect an upsurge in violence ..... because ...... WE ARE STILL THERE!

What we're seeing now, the upsurge in violence, is all about destabilizing the government," [Army Lt. Gen.] Chiarelli said in an interview as he traveled back to Baghdad. "It's a strategy to push up violence to take away the focus from what the prime minister is doing.

"I'll expect the violence to be high in the first months of the new government." Link