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Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

01/02/12

Remember that great success in Iraq? A wonderful multi-ethnic democracy which would highlight American freedom values around the region? Oops! It appears that a second round of de facto ethnic cleansing is occurring. Back during the worst of the sectarian violence mixed neighborhoods largely disappeared from Baghdad. Now the few that remain are seeing an exodus of minority Sunnis...

http://tinyurl.com/6p3rky6



The final disintegration of Iraq?

CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn

01/02/12

Is this the final disintegration of Iraq? Is Maliki turning into a Shia version of Saddam Hussein, abandoning compromise, centralizing power and relying on force alone? Does he have the means to do so? Even with Iraq?s $100bn-a-year oil revenues, a large if chaotic state machine and security forces numbering 900,000 soldiers and policemen, it will not be that easy...

http://bit.ly/tPeon1



Iraq: The aftermath

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

01/01/12

I d be less worried about war with Iran if we had learned from Iraq. But we haven t. On the other hand, how much new is there for us to learn, really? The chief problems with the Iraq War were that it was a humanitarian disaster, it made nobody safer, it was unprovoked and based on lies, and it was horrendously costly. All of these things were utterly foreseeable in 2002...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2012/01/01/14164


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The War Against the Shia

By Patrick Cockburn

It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33614.htm



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