Sunday, May 11, 2014

Analysis: Is Iraq really sliding back to civil war? Bush knew damn well it would before his illegal attack

This is the success bush is proud of and it will get much worse 

Ongoing fighting in Iraq's Anbar hits businesses

          
 Analysis: Is Iraq really sliding back to civil war?:According to Iraq Body Count, a UK-based independent tracking database, 863 people were killed between 1 and 26 April, while the overall death toll since the beginning of the year is rapidly approaching 4,000. 

 Although the current death rate is still well short of the 2,000-a-month seen at the height of the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2006, it is the highest it has been for six years - fuelling fears that the violence will only increase after the 30 April elections as the various political blocs vie for influence and power.A number of respected commentators, including David Ignatius, an associate editor and columnist for the Washington Post, and veteran British foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn are now starting to ask if the country is heading back to civil war.  

Thanks to Bush's success: Once a model city in Arab world, Baghdad is still the world's worst city


                                 


 Once a model city in Arab world, Baghdad is now the world's worst city:

Residents of Baghdad contend with near-daily attacks, a lack of electricity and clean water, poor sewerage and drainage systems, rampant corruption, regular gridlock, high unemployment and a myriad other problems.

 Once a model city in Arab world, Baghdad is now the world's worst city: The Iraqi capital was lumped with Bangui in the conflict-hit Central African Republic and the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, the latest confirmation of the 1,250-year-old city's fall from grace as a global intellectual, economic and political centre. Residents of Baghdad contend with near-daily attacks, a lack of electricity and clean water, poor sewerage and drainage systems, rampant corruption, regular gridlock, high unemployment and a myriad other problems.

World's worst city is a medal that Baghdad has worn since Bush's illegal attach. In the 1970's it was held as a shining example: 



Of course the U.S. Wasted Billions of Dollars on Iraqi Reconstruction after we helped destroy it.


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 U.S. Wasted Billions of Dollars on Iraqi Reconstruction: Despite the intervening decade, the report concluded that “the U.S. government is not much better prepared for the next stabilization operation than it was in 2003,” according to the report, The failure of hundreds of projects to achieve their potential – or in some cases to even be completed – has left “a legacy of bitter dissatisfaction among many Iraqis,” according to the 184-page report.

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