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The reason why I broke with my usual friendly demeanor and called people idiots in my header is pretty simple ... only an idiot will say that sectarian violence in Baghdad is worse than it has been. I don't know that there is anyone outside of official channels that has given you as much proof of that than I have, but here's some more.

After the Bush administration announced the U.S. would accept 7,000 Iraqi war refugees (second item, "The Daily Blade," February 21, 2007), OH Governor Ted Strickland told The Associated Press: "I am sympathetic to the plight of the innocent Iraqi people who have fled that country. However, I would not want to ask Ohioans to accept a greater burden than they already have borne for the Bush administration's failed policies."Strickland – who had voted against the October 2002 resolution authorizing military force to oust Saddam Hussein when he was a member of the House of Representatives - was swiftly and roundly...

Terrified that sectarian Muslim bloodshed could soon engulf the region, U.S. allies and adversaries in the Middle East have stepped up joint efforts to head off a religious civil war. Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran have held intensive talks in recent days on ways to tamp down sectarian violence in Iraq and Lebanon. Over the weekend, Saudi King Abdullah issued an unusual public call for calm. Top Islamic clerics and scholars in Egypt, Qatar and Iraq also have issued statements urging Muslim unity, often blaming the United States and other outside actors of trying to divide the faithful....

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish market Tuesday and two Shiite families were found slain north of the capital as violence across Iraq claimed at least 52 lives. On Wednesday, a series of bombs went off in rapid succession in a shopping district in a main Christian neighborhood of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 71, police said. Other attacks around Iraq killed four other people, and the U.S. military announced the death of a soldier in the north. A car bomb and two roadside bombs blew up within 10 minutes just before...

News Release June 8, 2006 Media Contact: (202) 789-5200 Cato Institute Experts Comment on the Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the Future of Iraq WASHINGTON – Cato Institute foreign policy experts are available to discuss the latest events in Iraq. Contact the media relations department to arrange an interview: (202) 789-5200, pr@cato.org. Christopher Preble, Cato Institute, director of foreign policy studies: "The death of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is welcomed by all civilized people. Zarqawi terrorized the Iraqi population, and engaged in some of the most brutal acts of the insurgency, including beheadings and the slaughter of countless...

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IRAQ: Palestinians flee to borders amid ongoing violence 05 Jun 2006 13:53:06 GMT BAGHDAD, 5 June (IRIN) - "Tell the Palestinians in your neighbourhood to leave Iraq or you'll all be killed," said one of Luai Sulaiman's captors after beating him severely and dumping him in the street.

HAWIJAH, Iraq (AFP) - Faced with attacks against their sheikhs and clan members, a number of Sunni tribes from Hawijah -- a rebel bastion in northern Iraq -- have declared war on Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "We shall fight all those who commit such attacks, notably Al-Qaeda," the tribal leaders said in a statement that has been circulating around Hawijah In the last month-and-a-half, the head of Al-Nuaim tribe, Ibrahim Al-Nuaimi, and one of the heads of the powerful Jubur tribe, Ahmad Mehdi Saleh, have been assassinated in this Sunni rebel bastion, 220 kilometers (137 miles) north...

Despite all the well known American successes in Iraq, sectarian religious infighting between Sunnis and Shiites now threatens the ultimate success and future peaceful self-governance of a nation on the edge of civil war. If the march towards peace and self determination as a free country fails, it will not be America’s loss, but rather that of the Iraqi people.