Discussion: Is Iraq slowly getting worse?

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<p>Or are we just now starting to pay attention to it again?</p>

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<p>[Suicide</a> bomber kills 25 in west Baghdad](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082400287.html]Suicide”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/24/AR2008082400287.html)</p>

<p>Viewing this through the lens of politics, is McCain putting too many of his eggs in one basket by frequently arguing that the surge has “succeeded” and emphasizing that he helped craft the strategy?</p>

<p>What effect do you all think would a worsening situation in Iraq have on the general election?</p>

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<p>I think by most measures the situation in Iraq is improving. There will still be some random suicide attacks and it’s not a location next on my vacation list but it’s definitely improved.</p>

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<p>Oh, I don’t think it will get worse quickly. The hostile occupying force is now paying 113,000 Sunnis $3,600 a year each not to make trouble, and now that the pro-Iranian government that our tax dollars support is rounding up the same people we are paying, there’s nothing to worry about. The U.S.-built walls are up all over Baghdad, and the ethnic cleansing is pretty much complete, with 5,000,000 people now homeless refugees, and they aren’t coming back. Sadr is simply going to wait, because he knows time is on his side. The Iranians already know that they’ve won, so they’re not going to rattle any cages. </p>

<p>We’ve taken away the arms we gave to Al-Qaeda in Iraq when we created it, and there’s much more action for foreign fighters in a collapsing Pakistan than in Iraq.</p>

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Sounds like the place is good. We should just leave and let them slaughter themselves.</p>