Friday Pentagon News Dump: Iraq Tipping Towards Civil War

[ruggerson]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100610_pf.html

Pentagon Gives Gloomy Iraq Report

By ROBERT BURNS
The Associated Press
Friday, September 1, 2006; 4:13 PM

WASHINGTON -- Sectarian violence is spreading in Iraq and the security problems have become more complex than at any time since the U.S. invasion in 2003, a Pentagon report said Friday.

In a notably gloomy report to Congress, the Pentagon reported that illegal militias have become more entrenched, especially in Baghdad neighborhoods where they are seen as providers of both security and basic social services.

The report described a rising tide of sectarian violence, fed in part by interference from neighboring Iran and Syria and driven by a "vocal minority" of religious extremists who oppose the idea of a democratic Iraq.

Death squads targeting mainly Iraqi civilians are a growing problem, heightening the risk of civil war, the report said.

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[jimshoes]

1. I hate to rub this in

but we told you so. Millions of us did. And actually I relish rubbing your asshole noses in it. You fuckheads suck at war and foreign policy. Your ideas are straight out of 1968. You're losers. War is not the answer. John Lennon had it right and you creeps hated him for it. Hurry up and retire or go to jail, whichever comes first.