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Via al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/05/201352071548212347.html


--- Quote ---At least 68 people have been killed and 195 injured in a series of car bombs across Iraqi cities, police and medics say, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.

The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when armed groups carried out retaliatory attacks against each other in a cycle of violence that left the country awash in blood. Still, Monday's attacks, some of which hit markets and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, have heightened fears that the country could be turning back down the path toward civil war.

Sectarian tensions have been worsening since Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shia-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.
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truth_seeker:
We wasted our troops' lives, we wasted our borrowed money, and we squandered our national reputation--for this?

Relic:

--- Quote from: truth_seeker on May 20, 2013, 05:23:04 pm ---We wasted our troops' lives, we wasted our borrowed money, and we squandered our national reputation--for this?

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I was all for invading Iraq. I was wrong. Horribly wrong.

The cost is all you describe and more. Without Saddam, Iran is free to act without fear of invasion.

Ford289HiPo:

--- Quote from: truth_seeker on May 20, 2013, 05:23:04 pm ---We wasted our troops' lives, we wasted our borrowed money, and we squandered our national reputation--for this?



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No. We caused this.

Oceander:

--- Quote from: Ford289HiPo on May 21, 2013, 02:12:57 am ---No. We caused this.

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We didn't cause it, but we certainly helped it along and we did waste blood and treasure in Iraq because we persisted in trying to strait-jacket the peoples in this region in political models that really only work for us.

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