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"Iraq's morgues reported receipts of 3,149 dead bodies in June [2006]; over 14,000 since the beginning of the year. Senior Iraqis in the government confide that break-up of Iraq into Sunni, Shia and Kurdish enclaves, each protected by its own militias, is now inevitable. Iraq as a viable country has been utterly destroyed, with even vaster carnage coming up over the horizon, and here's the numbskull President touting it as an advertisement for American nation-building at its best, and inviting its prime minister to Washington to proclaim Iraq's approaching renaissance, all in sync with the [[U.S. congressional elections in 2006|U.S. 2006 election campaigns]]," Cockburn [http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07312006.html wrote].
==Mapping the Violence==
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/in_depth/baghdad_navigator/ Mapping the Violence], BBC News, begins with May 2003.
==Ending the Violence: "Dealing with the Devil"==
"The catastrophe," Bayefsky said, "is the brainchild of Secretary General [[Kofi Annan]], who has effectively turned the United Nations into the political wing of [[Hezbollah]]. Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs [[Nicholas Burns]] are working furiously," she wrote, "to satisfy a timetable dictated by Annan, not by the interests of the United States."
"There will be only one sure result of this move," Bayefsky concludes, "the empowerment of terrorists whose ultimate target is the United States and all democratic values. Secretary Rice’s belief that there is a serious convergence between the United Nations agenda and American foreign-policy needs in the age of terrorism is a profound error in judgment for which democratic societies everywhere will be forced to pay a heavy price."
==Lebanon: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict==
