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:*"I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence we encountered" in Iraq.—Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], [[National Press Club]] in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2006. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=alTj0kZnWubQ&refer=us]
:*"The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an [[invasion of Iraq]] would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue."—John Heilprin, Associated Press, November 5, 2006. [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_WAR_GAMES?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT]
:*"In the bleakest assessment yet of conditions in Iraq, the 10-member [[Iraq Study Group]] bluntly said President [[George W. Bush]]'s current policy 'is not working' and urged the White House to hold direct talks with regimes in [[Iran]] and [[Syria]] on ways to reduce the bloodshed," Sheldon Alberts of CanWest News Service [http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=e7c3d32e-b728-4ca8-a94e-e2a5cbb3ef81&k=83014 reported] December 7, 2006. "The panel specifically called on the White House to embark on a major diplomatic initiative before the end of December, or risk having [[Iraq]] continue its 'slide toward chaos'." "The debate is over: By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war. Indeed, the only thing standing between [[Iraq]] and a descent into total Bosnia-like devastation is 135,000 U.S. troops—and even they are merely slowing the fall. The internecine conflict could easily spiral into one that threatens not only Iraq but also its neighbors throughout the oil-rich Persian Gulf region with instability, turmoil and war," Daniel L. Byman and [[Kenneth M. Pollack]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800983.html wrote] August 20, 2006, in the ''Washington Post''.
"The consequences of an all-out civil war in Iraq could be dire. Considering the experiences of recent such conflicts, hundreds of thousands of people may die. Refugees and displaced people could number in the millions. And with Iraqi insurgents, militias and organized crime rings wreaking havoc on Iraq's oil infrastructure, a full-scale civil war could send global oil prices soaring even higher," Byman and Pollack wrote.
*[http://www.senate.gov/~foreign/hearings/2004/hrg040420a.html "Iraq Transition: Civil War or Civil Society?"], Hearing before the [[U.S. Senate]] Committee on Foreign Relations, April 20, 2004.
== External Links links ==
===Background===
*Connie Hammond, [http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/13/2001/101/1/15 "The Gulf War never ended,"] ''Journal'', Spring 2001 (issue); ''The Free Press'', May 16, 2001.
=== Articles & Commentary ===
====[[civil war in Iraq: External Links 2002 and 2003|2002 and 2003]]========[[civil war in Iraq: External Links 2004|2004]]========[[civil war in Iraq: External Links 2005|2005]]========2006====
*'''[[civil war in Iraq: External Links January-March 2006|January-March 2006]]'''
*'''[[civil war in Iraq: External Links April-June 2006|April-June 2006]]'''
*'''[[civil war in Iraq: External Links July-December 2006|July-December 2006]]'''
====[[civil war in Iraq: External Links 2007|2007]]====
== [[civil war in Iraq: Related SourceWatch Resources|Related SourceWatch Resources]] ==*'''In particular, also see:
:*[[Salvador option]]
:*[[sectarian break-up of Iraq]]
:*[[United States as a rogue nation]]
:*[[violence in the Middle East]]
:*[[War in Iraq is fueling global terrorism]]'''
[[category:Iraq]][[category:war in Iraq]]
