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More Iraq analysis.

251 killed, 39 wounded in Iraq.

Iraqi Shiite cleric threatens US forces. Nobody but the warmongers want the US back in Iraq.

US-trained Iraqi soldiers haven't offered much resisted to ISIS and its Sunni militia allies, but Shiite militias vow to defend Baghdad.

US rulers call Iraq's civil war a political crisis.

Supreme Iraqi cleric calls for PM Maliki to resign and make way for more inclusive government.

74 percent of Americans against another war in Iraq.

Report exposes lie about US being surprised.

"A secret plan to aid the Iraqi army in its fight against Al Qaeda-aligned Sunni Muslim militants was authorized by President Barack Obama late last year, but was handicapped by a lack of resources and mistrust over Iran's influence on the government of Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to a published report.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House initially devoted only a small group of specialists to the task of gathering intelligence on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). A senior U.S. official told the paper that the plan ""wasn't a priority and nobody thought it was a serious effort.""

They had a plan.

Even the Washington Post is forced to admit the Iraq civil war and the Syrian civil war are the same war.

The consequences of the war in Iraq and the war on terror.

"More than a decade after its invasion and occupation, after Cheney made those fervent claims, no administration would have the slightest problem linking al-Qaeda to Iraq (or Syria, Yemen, or a number of other countries). A decade later, the evidence is in. Sunni Iraq, along with areas of neighboring Syria, one of the countries that was supposed to bow down before American might, now houses a rudimentary jihadist state, a creature birthed into the world in significant part thanks to the dreams and fantasies of the visionaries of the Bush administration. Across the Greater Middle East, jihadism and al-Qaeda wannabes of every sort are on the rise, while terror groups are destabilizing regions from Pakistan to northern Africa."

Al Qaeda is everywhere. This is a great article.