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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think Iraq and Chile are near civil war.
Not looking good in either country. The protests are growing and state sanctioned violence against them is escalating.
Meanwhile, our news is Trump TV across the board.
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I think Iraq and Chile are near civil war. (Original Post)
roamer65
Nov 2019
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moondust
(19,979 posts)1. More than 260 killed in Iraq
since October 1.
Protesters, mostly unemployed youths, blame a political elite that has ruled Iraq since the toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003, and demand a complete overhaul of the political system.
http://news.yahoo.com/6-iraqi-forces-kill-10-213307685.html
Volaris
(10,270 posts)2. BushCo, hard at work. That ruling elite, and the unemployed generation that's mad at them?
Thanks, L.PaulBremmer. You FUCKING INCOMPETENT.
and don't forget to thank Kissinger for Chile and the rise of the neo-liberals
TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)3. Saudis and Turks may be destabilizing Iraq
Current government is pro-Iranian and destabilizing trouble in Iraq would give an excuse for Erdogan to invade the Kurdish areas of Iraq.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)4. Very true.
maxsolomon
(33,327 posts)8. you can't destabilized what's already unstable.
bush broke Iraq into smithereens.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)5. Can you imagine the PDB for these two items?
It would have to be on sparate days because two nations each on the brink of civil war is too much for trump to think about.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)7. It would hafta be all in pictures.
Like a newspaper from Fahrenheit 451.