Here's
the latest:
Iraqi police found 38 tortured bodies and witnessed the slow release of five hostages amidst general violence throughout Baghdad Thursday.
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At least three people were killed and 10 others wounded Thursday when a car bomb exploded on a busy central Baghdad street
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An Iraqi army convoy traveling in the western Baghdad neighborhood al-Jamia was also bombed by insurgents
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Ashraf Qazi was speaking on Wednesday the day after the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq issued a report saying more than 14,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq this year, and that more than 5,800 deaths occurred in May and June alone.
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A wave of assaults in Baghdad and Kirkuk on Wednesday killed at least 19 people, including a senior Interior Ministry employee and a family of four at a grocery store.
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kidnappers abducted more than 20 members of the agency that cares for Sunni religious sites nationwide. And police found 10 bodies dumped in the capital.
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More from
Wednesday. And another
corner turned, completing yet
another circle.
Can we finally call this what it really is? Civil war? A complete clusterfuck? A total failure with regards to military planning and execution?
I'll even be satisfied with one of those "If only I knew then what I knew now..." moments or "If we had only listened to the advisors telling us to use more troops, that WMD's were not present, that we needed a post-invasion plan..." type speeches....
No, instead we get arguing against timetables. Yet interestingly, long gone are the references to turning corners and making progress.