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Gunmen patrol during clashes with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq on January 5.
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Last year was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008 Security void in Iraq has allowed al Qaeda-linked groups to strengthen Al Qaeda-linked groups are mounting attacks on both sides of Iraq's border with Syria
Washington (CNN) -- The recent fighting in Iraq has posed a serious challenge to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his government, raising questions about his ability to hold the country together amid a rising insurgency. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that the United States will help the Iraqi government in the battle against al Qaedalinked fighters in western Iraq, but he stressed it won't send troops. Here are five questions about the deteriorating situation: 1. I thought the Iraq war was over. Why is there still fighting? Well, actually last year was the deadliest since 2008. The number of dead reached its worst levels since the height of the Iraq war, when sectarian fighting between the country's Shiite majority and its Sunni minority pushed it to the brink of civil war. Those tensions continue to be fueled by widespread discontent among the Sunnis, who say they are marginalized by the Shiite-led government and unfairly targeted by heavy-handed security tactics.
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Al-Maliki tells troops not to strike Falluja neighborhoods Sunni anger has made it easier for al Qaeda-linked militants to recruit and operate while eroding the public's cooperation with security forces. Violence has flared in recent days because of the arrest of a Sunni lawmaker in Ramadi and the dismantling of protest sites by the army in Falluja and Ramadi. Sunnis have rejected the authority of the government, and some Sunni officers in the army have deserted to fight Iraqi forces and attack police stations and prisons. Now fears are mounting that national elections in April will bring more violence and descend into civil war.
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Since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops, the Sunni-led group tied to al Qaeda, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), has staged a comeback amid Iraq's growing sectarian tensions and launched a series of bloody attacks on government buildings and personnel, killing thousands of civilians. ISIS has been working doggedly to exploit the security vacuum across Iraq. Conflicting reports say ISIS this weekend captured the western city of Falluja and took control of most parts of the principal capital of Ramadi. Iraqi troops are now battling insurgents in both places for control. 3. Falluja and Ramadi were pretty important to the U.S. during the Iraq war. Isn't the U.S. going to help? Both were important battlegrounds for the U.S. during the Iraq war. Falluja was an insurgent stronghold until U.S. Marines fought their bloodiest battle of the war in 2004 to drive militants out. In Ramadi, the U.S. supported the "Awakening," in which tribal leaders turned on al Qaeda and aligned themselves with American and Iraqi forces to secure Anbar province. That was a turning point in the war. Now that U.S. troops are all out of Iraq, Washington is not eager to go back in.
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If you look at the middle east today the majority of the states are in turmoil. It is obvious that American military intervention has not only failed to create a stable Iraq but has also caused instability in the region. The fault lies with the political leadership in both parties who have made the mistake of using military force as our primary tool in regards to foreign policy. It is ironic that one of the most stable countries, Iran is the one we seem the most intent on plunging into war.
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They should have left Saddam Hussein in there, it would be a normal country still, well their normal anyway.
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MNLFoodcritic
This is what is annoying: The US invades Iraq, turns it upside down to almost total chaos with various warring factions and has the gall to question the Iraqi PM's ability to keep the country together.
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Sad fact was that Iraq was in better hands with Hussein and it should of been the Iraqi people alone who made the decision to rise up and overthrow him.
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This is a Sunni v.s. Shia war, Muslims will not stop killing each other (and non muslim), Peace in Islam is fight until there is only 1 type of Islam in this world.. and the whole world under SHARIA.. ISLAM + MUSLIM = WMD! Islam can make your very cute young neighbour kill u for the reason that u think NEVER exist.. and can blow themselves in ANY places... and the best is there are 1.5 billion of them!! Check this out, this is REAL and still LEGAL until TODAY in ALL Islamic Apartheid Sharia Country (SAUDI, PAKISTAN, AFGHAN, etc).. Islamic shariah is the REAL threat for Human Rights!.. In ALL (dozen of countries with hundreds of millions of people) Islamic Apartheid Shariah country.. Which until
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Not really god knows how many people died thanks to him. Also add the deaths from the wars he started and there own troops deaths, then all the people being murdered and tortured. They need a strategy and a plan to take over this area, then a plan to hold it & stop weapons getting back in once they clear it. To do it right they need to go in from many different ways "5". 3 of them are fakes that will see troops move in a small bit, then hold there ground "making them think there holding them back" There for they will send backups to there "3 fake attack areas", thinking they will push them back with more men, freeing up other areas of the real assault to come. I would say at first attack them and leave all phone towers on & don't use jammers yet, so they send extra men to them areas "they think they are holding them off". Once the real groups of troops starts to moves in, after the fake assault "Cut everything off at once". The enemy will be in 85% of the area they are first getting attacked "ploy assaults" & will not be able to talk when the other 2 massive assaults take place.. Even if they can they will be in disarray 100%.
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Yossirian
"Not really god knows how many people died thanks to him." Sure, we dont know. But we do know how many people died since the US decided to get rid of those wmds in iraq and evil al qaeda. Between 250.000 and 750.000 people depending on source. I doubt Hussein would have been that busy. Iraq study estimates war-related deaths at 461,000.
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Source 250k to 750?? lmao yeah adds up. Massive gap there that tells me "Sure "we dont know". Lets just say how many died from the Iran war? They should of started that war to remove him, but they should of had strategist in place ready to go.
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Just google, you know i cant link sources here.... There are even some figures above 1 million deaths since 2003. Iran war figures are somewhere around 200-350k. But why compare it?
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You can put a link. just put spaces in it and say "put it together" like this. But add h t t p : / / w w w. you tu be . com / watch ?v = G C Q Q D w Q o 2 x I
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"But why compare it" I don't it would not of been that bad if they had a strategist's in place. I remember hearing how 1,600 people dled from 1 car bomb attack in the markets. That was 1 car bomb times 10 a day killing mass people. How hard is it to put check points around the markets, or around a area with big groups of people? How hard is it to put check points and road blocks "stopping car getting near all them people near the markets"?. At a check point only 2 to 7 people can be killed, not 1,600. That seen a instant 95% drop of civilians deaths instantly. Anyone like him should be taken out, but it was all done wrong with not 1 strategy put in place. It took 1 guy to give them over 50 strategy's, that forced the Sunnis to change sides, and seen not even 1 U.S troop killed "each week" most weeks in the end of that war. If things got done from the start, F all deaths would of followed.
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"Strategy to take over the area". You don't take over a country. The us has never been any good in nation building after "taking over" a foreign country. Intruder1400 is right, should leave that country alone - Sadam was dead set against them Al Qaeda and they were under tight control in Iraq. Now have a part of the country? And remember the us was the one which helped Al Qaeda in the 80's? What a big mistake. Now it is coming back to haunt us big time, started with 911.
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911? Odd because last i herd the CIA & FBI new about it "but some how" it just slipped there minds and something happened in "BOTH DEPARTMENTS" at the same time, to make them slip up and forget "SOME HOW". really?????
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A country? I believe the bad area is not "the whole country". America helped stop Russia from invading the hole area, that 1 guy started a terrorist group from "after that war". It was about seeing Russia going under & them not taking oer the area. It just happened, and just think, WHAT DID AMERICA DO TO HIM? "HELPED HIM". They stopped Russia moving in on his country next "also". ^So your saying we should think backing this guy and there people "to help them" would make 1 nut want to bombs them W T F Sadam was a mass murderer that killed mass people thanks to the wars he started. How many people died on each side from the wars??? How many people got tortured and killed under his rule?? Lets just say a lot more then the dead from this war.
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not just a normal country, if their where no sanctions and no embargo, we would have been up their. Many people will acknowledge that our standerd of living was comparable to those of some European countries. Untill this day i still don't understand the reason for the war, other than to destroy a prospering country, that is after they had put us under 11 years of embargo, and still could not victor over the resistance. The U.S has been economically destroyed due to their aggression against Iraq, a economy that seems to be growing, it spiraling into collapse.
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Halabja chemical attack 5000 Iraqis killed by Iraqi leader "Saddam" nothing to add! It seems you really deserve that kind of stuff.
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Ali
Was proven not a Iraqi attack, if you kept you're ears open you would know that. He was never charged with it in the fake courtroom, but you also dont know that so their is no point in me wasting anymore words on you. The KURDS love Saddam and go to the north and ask
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don't forget that america also tried to screw Iran over back in the 70's...
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Solution: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." - Ann Coulter
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Harry Seaward
In the big picture, the one based on reality, it might be the right move. Of course you see the world as you want it to be.
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What do you mean? the head of snake is in Tehran that support both Shia dictator of Syria and Iraq and making bomb to establish its empire.
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al malik implements Iranian policy to establish its empire ,, usa should not support him before survey the situation on ground because al maliki uses the phobia of terrorism to kill his politic opponents ! please usa has no interest to be bias to al maliki who is the chief of islamic daawa party another face of terrorism
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Yeah you're right. We should have left Saddam invading other countries, you know like Kuwaiti. You all act like it's America's fault for the killing that goes on a daily basis in the Middle East, but nothing about the Sunni's against the Shiites. Whether we got involved or not, these folks were going to go at it regardless. They just got tired of the same Allah excuses that it was a blessing (for them) that they can blame someone else for a change. You'd think that after thousands of years that these to groups would finally agree to peace. But noooooooooooooooooo not happening. Stop blaming the US for the mass killing that these people do to each other anyways.
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Thats typical of muslims, they will go on twitter, fb, u tube begging e west for help. When e west does help and they cant control their own blood thirsty islamic brethen, they will turn around and blame e west... as iraqis and libyans r now doing. I am glad e west has left bashar alone... let e muslims learn. Let not help, people who will stab u , once yr back is turned. E west helped obl liberate afghanistan from e russians and he paid back with 9/11. The u.s should have ignored libya ...but its too late now
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"the mistake of using military force as our primary tool in regards to foreign policy"? Use of military force except in defense, and certainly as a "tool of foreign policy", is a crime of war of aggression. The German Leaders were put on trial for such "foreign policy" (World War II) in 1945.
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Well, thank the U.S. -- al-Qaeda is a by-product of U.S. foreign policy of the 1970s and '80s. See: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen (later to become alQaeda) by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. http://www.counterpunch.Org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-themujahideen/
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Supporting rebels in Syria was a terrible decision by the Obama administration, even worse was when it started back in Libya. Eventually al qaeda and other hard liner extremists filled in the power gap when the dictators in these countries started losing power. The arab spring was the perfect occasion to recruit new members to al qaeda. Now the al qaeda leaders could easily call the fresh recruits to jihad as they had a new purpose to fight; getting rid of dictators to open the way for democracy (the latter being obviously a lie to implement an authoritarian and theocratic regime). The Obama admin never saw it coming. Pulling troops out of Iraq was at the same time Obama's campaign goal for re-election; without taking into account the fragility and instability inside the whole ME by supporting rebels, removing secular dictators by force (bombing Lybia, civil war in Syria) and paving the way for al qaeda and splinter groups to pour in. The whole ME has become a total mess. Kurds want their own nation, while fighting against Assad (shia) and ISIL (islamic state of iraq and levant, sunni). Meanwhile Assad is fighting against ISIL, Iran is supporting Assad, Iraq is fighting ISIL and is at odds with Iran and its Kurdish minority. Saudi Arabia and other gulf monarchies are supporting ISIL and al qaeda. Saudi Arabia supported the military regime to topple Morsi in Egypt but Morsi (the muslim brotherhood) were against Assad and were also against Saudi/gulf monarchism (wahabbi salafism) while trying to improve relations with Iran.
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scott
Not at first, AL-Q was not there with the rebels, they cam along a bit after. Iraq the fools for trying to get U.S tried over there, now they had to pull out. That war was going so bad in 2006 but in 2007/8 things changed. In 2009/10 there was hardly 1 US death each week, so much so most attacks dropped off from there hi to 97% less in 2009/10. Iraq should have let America stay, as the strategy's had made it a hole new ball game, then in the end Intel was running the down even going to get them way out of city's "as they had to flee". Its up to them to make things happen, & that will mean giving more power to the sunnis. That is something i would not do. They just want to take over not have peace.
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scott
You can also thank Russia as the guy that started it, was already in the war before america backed him "with extra funds". If it was not for Russia, this never would of happened.
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zedave41
No doubt your a right wing, the middle east is the results of people like you thinking you know what is best for people, people like you disgust me. Proud vet 1961-1965.
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Let's get a strong dictator to rule Iraq by fear, and keep the Sunni and Shiiite factions quiet - wait - we had just such a person - SADDAM HUSSEIN!
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Babak Hsp
What?!The war he started (Iran-Iraq war) led to death of 200,000 Irani Shia and Sunni and morethan 300,000 Iraqi Sunnis.
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Was the threat of Iran worth it? Well you can see that today Iran is top story.... Maybe Saddam knew something the world only came to know today?
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Babak Hsp
Iran is top story?!Iraq Syria?Saudis ,no? funny,it seems you don't think before you talk. OK,Iran was bad,what about Kuwait that he burned to ground?what about his own people he gassed in Halabja?? obviously he knew something, he knew that Iran was only free country in middle east that time.Saudis are doing Saddam's job now,you will see them burn too,i promise
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Saddam's job now,you will see them burn too,i promise you:)
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Ali
Kuwait was not burned to the ground, the army was welcomed, if you dont know the facts. Halabja was proven to be not a Iraqi attack, thats why they never charged him with it in that fake courtroom, because people knew the truth, you're still a little behind brother.
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Mike
They killed SADDAM HUSSEIN because of Mliki party request that is under control of Iran.
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fuzzball
Bush went after Saddam because his continued rule embarrassed his father, that is the only reason we went in. 5,000 American deaths, hundreds of thousand wounded, a trillion dollars to "get" even. Bush wanted to attack Iraq from the first month of his administration, long before 9/11. Within a year everyone new it was a phoney war and would end up just like it is now.
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"Bush went after Saddam because his continued rule embarrassed his father"? G.W. Bush, as President, did NOTHING of his own will. He did what he was told by those around him, and all his speeches were written for him. Whenever he did say anything of his own, it was a "gaff" that made people laugh, like "... civilized countries do not invade other countries ...". He would have made such a good comedian, it was a waste of talent to take on a President's job.
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Mind you if they put mass Intel in place from the start $, it never would of got so bad. Also in the end 20089/2010 there was not even 1 U.S troops death a week "most weeks". Its up to Iraq now and making U.S troops pull out was there biggest mistake. Before America left "after the strategy's changes it all". They has Good Intel put in place, and in the last 2 years the Intel was crushing AL-Q. Troops were not even going after them in city's, because there was F all left. If you remember they were going to villages and chasing them away.
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I believe that was a main reason & the sole reason why :"2".
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Invading Iraq was never necessary. The military industrial complex has played all of our troops for fools ...
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