Iraq battles for peace three years after US 'victory'

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060501/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_060501101354

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Three years after US President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat, a raging insurgency and bitter sectarianism have engulfed Iraq as leaders struggle to form the first full-term post- Saddam Hussein government.


On May 1, 2003, Bush declared that the war which toppled Saddam was over, giving hope to 27 million Iraqis that peace would finally prevail.

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed," Bush triumphantly told some 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.

But after three years, an estimated 35,000 civilian and 2,400 US military deaths, Iraqis are still waiting for a day without bombings and a night of steady electricity.




US President George W. Bush announces the end to major combat in Iraq whilst aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003. Three years after Bush declared an end to major combat, a raging insurgency and bitter sectarianism have engulfed Iraq as leaders struggle to form the first full-term post-Saddam Hussein government.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)

[dipsydoodle]

1. Well knock me down with a feather

It was a victory was it ? Strange use of the word. Using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut and opening Pandora's box at the same time is hardly a victory.

[ixion]

2. mission accomplished?

think again, there, chimpenator.

The only think that's been accomplished is:

1) The loss of international respect for the US
2) Thousands of innocent civillian lives
3) Billions (a trillion?) of dollars
4) An increase in the Muslim terrorist numbers
5) Civil war in Iraq.


Way to go neocons! :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

3. nominated