I know it doesn't interest Americans including DUers, but 33 people were killed in the latest Iraq [View all]

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bombing. We went to war under false pretenses. We spent trillions of dollars. We lost thousand of soldiers. We killed thousands and thousands of civilians and the U.S. is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands more. In many significant ways, Iraq is worse off today than it was before we invaded. The ME is certainly not a better, more democratic region- or a less dangerous one. Oh, and we lined the pockets of crooks and corporate cronies of both repukes and dems- not to mention torture, Abu Gharib, Gitmo, black sites and on and on.

I'm still shocked by it. I'm still not deadened to the horrors of the largely phony war on terror.



Bombings in Baghdad, including three near the heavily-fortified Green Zone and the foreign ministry, killed 33 people Wednesday, the latest in Iraq's worst surge of violence in nearly six years.

The attacks, which wounded dozens more, came as security forces battle militants in the western province of Anbar, including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a powerful jihadist group that has exploited the chaos in neighbouring Syria.

With violence at its highest level since 2008, diplomats have urged the Shiite-led government to reach out to Sunnis in order to undercut support for militancy, but Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has taken a hard line ahead of April's parliamentary elections.

Wednesday's deadliest bombings, which included at least one suicide attack, struck during morning rush hour, ripping through confessionally-mixed areas of the capital bordering the Green Zone, home to parliament, the prime minister's residence and the US and British embassies.

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