Iraq Sunni Militant Group Vows to March on Baghdad

[another_liberal]

9. The Russian Foreign Minister had this to say concerning the disaster that is Iraq.

Our three trillion dollars spent during ten years of occupation has clearly just made things worse for everyone involved. We ignored the hard-gained, long-standing rules of international conduct established after the end of WWII, we invaded and made war on the people of a nation which had not attacked us first. Now we are beginning to pay the price for that "exceptionalism" and arrogance.

The events in Iraq are a result of the actions carried out by the US and the UK, and the situation has spiraled out of control, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists.

“This is an illustration of the complete failure of the adventure that was started by the US and the UK and has now spiraled out of control completely. We express our solidarity with the Iraqi authorities, the Iraqi people who should restore peace and security in their country, but the actions of our Western partners raise a lot of questions,” Lavrov said.

Lavrov noted that 11 years ago the US president announced the victory of democracy in Iraq, and that “the situation has deteriorated in geometrical progression.”

“The unity of Iraq has been called into question. The rampant terrorism is taking place due to the fact that the occupation troops didn’t pay any attention to the interior political processes, didn’t help the national dialogue, and only pursued their own interests,” Lavrov said.

http://rt.com/news/165548-lavrov-iraq-west-failure/