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The Crux

Ivo Daadler gets to the heart of the matter with regard to the Iraq Survey Group:

The most basic flaw in the report is the belief that political reconciliation is still possible in Iraq. But there is no evidence to support that belief — and there is plenty of evidence that the opposite is true. Iraqis are dying at a rate of well over 100 per day — which adds up to 40-50,000 Iraqi men, women, and children perishing each year. Many times that number are seriously wounded. Those that aren’t killed or maimed are leaving Iraq — currently at a rate of 1 million Iraqis per year. These are numbers that affirm, in ways that no spin can counter, that Iraq is now and has been for quite some time descended into a deadly civil war — a war in which Baghdad, the Iraqi capital city, stands at the bloody center.

It's a quick read if you'd like to give it look.

I'd argue that it's worse than a civil war in Iraq: it's a completely failed state.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 12/10/2006 06:22:00 PM