How close is Iraq to civil war? Quite close.

[cali]

Car bombs, roadside bombs and shootings killed at least 47 people in Iraq on Sunday, police and medical sources said, as tensions intensify between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims across the Middle East.

Sunni Muslim insurgents and the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq have significantly increased their attacks this year. More than 1,000 Iraqis were killed in July, the highest monthly death toll since 2008, according to the United Nations.

More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions and shaken Iraq's fragile coalition of Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni factions.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE97O06Q20130825

U.S. Sidelined as Iraq Becomes Bloodier

The 2003 invasion helped sow the seeds for an incipient civil war.
The U.S. invaded Iraq 3,802 days — and 4,486 American lives — ago. As Iraq moves ever closer to civil war — 1,057 died there last month, the highest toll in five years, with more than 100 perishing in nationwide bombings since last weekend — the U.S. basically can do little to quell the violence its invasion a decade ago helped make possible.

The U.S. government said the weekend attacks were likely the work of al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch, exploiting ancient tensions between Islam’s Sunni and Shi‘ite sects. Once again, it announced the existence of a $10 million bounty for information leading to the killing or capture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Sunni leader of the local al-Qaeda franchise.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/14/u-s-sidelined-as-iraq-becomes-more-bloody/#ixzz2dAuKelgi


Which leads to the question, how ignorant, dumb or blindly loyal to the administration do you have to be to support more military intervention in the middle east?

[PDJane]

1. The answer is that you have to be insular and willfully ignorant.

[Arctic Dave]

2. Sycophants.

Fluffers.

Ass Kissers.

They are called by several different names but they are all the same.

[sabrina 1]

3. You have to develop amnesia, willfully, to refuse to acknowledge that US

'humanitarian' intervention guarantees hundreds of thousands of deaths of innocent people.

It's a 'we have to destroy the village to save it' philosophy, which is why the world rejects Imperial style 'democracy, always using Iraq as our proud example of what we view as 'democracy'.

This decision is the purview of the Security Council it is NOT the business of the Imperial, Colonial states, the US, the UK, France and presumably another coalition of the 'willing' after we pay them for their 'willingness'.