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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe bad news: 47 killed in Iraq today...the good news....
The attack was not chemical.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/01/us-iraq-violence-camp-idUSBRE98004H20130901
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The bad news: 47 killed in Iraq today...the good news.... (Original Post)
David Krout
Sep 2013
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rug
(82,333 posts)1. The other good news is that the war in Iraq has ended.
brucefan
(1,549 posts)2. Mission accomplished!
liberal N proud
(61,194 posts)3. Iraq is the best testimony against taking action in Syria.
Another quagmire in the sand.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)4. The thing about Iraq is that its 47 dead every day, monday thru sunday.
My home page on this internet thingee is BBC-America. It may not be the world's best news source but it isn't the worst either. A day does not go by that 40 or 50 or 60 people are not killed in Iraq in the violence we gave free reign to. That's about 1,000 people every three weeks or so.
wtmusic
(39,166 posts)5. It's all going on Dubya's tab
for which he will one day, hopefully, be held accountable.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,161 posts)6. My page is Breaking News, and you are correct.
Daily reports of explosions and shootings in Iraq, and now increasingly in Afghanistan.
Don'tch jus love how our exported Democracy works in those countries???