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Iraq five years on: Epic Fail

British people deceived on entering the war and deceived about our withdrawal.

We have left a mess of Basra and Southern Iraq.

Iran and disparate militias have control basically, and former translators are being abducted and killed.

Violence is down in Baghdad but the new Iraqi parliament is a failing system and many MPs having suffered threats and attempts on their lives are not attending parliament and due to sectarian division very little agreement can be reached on any legislation.

Former enemies are being paid to secure their own neighbourhoods, the insurgents have been given territory.

The US is effectively governing Iraq through Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) militias

Numbers of Al Qaeda will dwindle when the US pulls out as the locals get reabsorbed into civil society or join militia and foreigner will return home.

The Kurdish north has become a self governing autonomous region. Iraq has broken up.

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“The improvement may be due at least in part to the “surge”, the increase in US troops”.

The downturn in violence has nothing to do with the surge. The downturn in violence is due to;

– the ongoing cease-fire with Muqtada, a cease-fire that he recently extended;

– most of the internecine fighting is over with and the Shias and Shiites now live within their own ghettoes and will not travel outside them. Baghdad today is a collection of hostile Sunni and Shia ghettoes divided by high concrete walls. Different districts have different national flags. Sunni areas use the old Iraqi flag with the three stars of the Baath party and the Shia wave a newer version, adopted by the Shia-Kurdish government. The Kurds have their own flag.

– Americans paying and arming those they were fighting a few months ago. The Sunni defeat in the battle for Baghdad in 2006 and early 2007 was the motive for many guerrillas, previously anti-American, suddenly allying themselves with American forces. They concluded they could not fight the US, al Qa’ida, the Iraqi army and police and the Mehdi Army at the same time.

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Five years of occupation have destroyed Iraq as a country, but the media carries on and reprints Bush’s mendacious claims of victory and a noble cause without even blushing.

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By Matt Wharton

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