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The best way to neutralize Iran is to have them overstretch. An older, forgotten grand strategy where adversaries bleed each other is in the Western interest. Here’s all one needs to know about what is happening in Iraq: As France 24 reported, “Iraqi security forces made no effort to stop the protesters as they marched to the heavily-fortified Green Zone after a funeral held for those killed in the US air strikes, letting them pass through a security checkpoint leading to the area.” Consider that for a moment, and let the anger surge through your veins.These are the same people...

Second Iraqi cleric assassinated Tuesday 23 November 2004, 13:31 Makka Time, 10:31 GMT The AMS and other bodies have called for a poll boycott. A group of armed men have killed a Muslim cleric in the town of Miqdadiya, the second assassination of an Association of Muslim Scholars' member in Iraq in two days, witnesses and hospital officials say. It is not clear whether Shaikh Ghalib al-Zuhair's killing has any connection with the death of Shaikh Faidh Muhammad Amin al-Faidhi, brother of the association's official spokesman. Shaikh Faidh was killed in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul...