Exit without a strategy: Blaming the occupation, not rival sects

By Sami Ramadani
March 1, 2006
Guardian, February 24, 2006

The popular response to Iraq’s latest atrocities has been to blame the occupation, not rival sects

The shattered golden dome of Samarra is yet another milestone in George Bush’s “long war” - in which a civil war in Iraq shows every sign of being a devastating feature. But what sort of civil war? I am convinced it is not the type of war that politicians in Washington and London, and much of the western media, have been anticipating.

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