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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].

==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."

==Lebanon: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict==

"The current dispute, triggered by [[Hezbollah]]'s kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, illustrates the explosive nature in the region. The response of Israel, as the record would indicate, was swift and disproportionately forceful," Kamal wrote.

===Profiles===

*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/default.stm "Middle East Crisis: In Depth"], BBC.

*[http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/35772526-C1A8-4599-868C-E513C4F29C9B.htm "Timeline of events in Lebanon,"] ''[[Al Jazeera]]'', July 22, 2006. Reverse timeline.

*[[Robert Parry]], [http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/071706.html "The Abyss Beckons,"] ''consortiumnews.com'', July 18, 2006.

*Nicholas D. Kristof, [http://64.226.238.78/PA/others/others216.shtml "Feeding the Enemy,"] ''New York Times'' (''The Progressive American''), July 18, 2006.

*Jad Mouawad and Steven Erlanger, [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/20/news/mideast.php "Fighting rages on in southern Lebanon,"] ''New York Times''/''International Herald Tribune'', July 20, 2006.

*Hassein Dakroub, [http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/07/20/ap2892268.html "Israel Won't Rule Out Full-Scale Invasion,"] Associated Press (''Forbes''), July 20, 2006.

*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5201696.stm "Hezbollah defies Israeli pressure,"] BBC, July 21, 2006.

*Lee Keath, [http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2219720 "Israel Preparing Lebanon Ground Offensive,"] Associated Press (ABC News), July 21, 2006.

*Sarah Meyer, [http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/07/index-on-illegal-us-weapons-in-lebanon.html "Index on US Illegal Weapons in Lebanon,"] ''Index Research'' Blogspot, July 30, 2006.

*Greg Mitchell, [http://editorandpublisher.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=David+Brooks+No+End+to+Death+in+Lebanon&expire=&urlID=19004169&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorandpublisher.com%2Feandp%2Fcolumns%2Fpressingissues_display.jsp%3Fvnu_content_id%3D1002914839&partnerID=60 "Endorsing More Death in Lebanon,"] ''Editor & Publisher'', July 30, 2006.

*[http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/30/matthews-frankenstein/ "Matthews: War in Iraq United 'the Disparate Pieces of Shia Radicalism into a Frankenstein Monster',"] ''Think Progress'', July 30, 2006. See WMP and QT video links at [http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/30/matthews-shia-crescent-is-a-frankenstein-monster/#more-9294 ''Crooks and Liars''].

*[http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2006/07/us-middle-east-policy-blood-soaked.html "US middle east policy: '...a blood soaked failure'!"] ''The Existentialist Cowboy'' Blogspot, July 30, 2006.

*Alexander Cockburn, [http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07312006.html "The Triumph of Crackpot Realism. Bush, Rice and Israel's Hack Legions,"] ''CounterPunch'', July 31, 2006.

*[http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/31/hagel.mideast/ "Key Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast. Nebraska's Sen. Hagel calls for immediate cease-fire,"] CNN, July 31, 2006.

*Anne Bayefsky, [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODQyMGNlYWM5NzIzZGFhOTNlZDAxMmM2YTRkOWRjYzE= "Dealing with the Devil. A diplomatic disaster in the making,"] ''National Review Online'', August 7, 2006.

*[http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=151776 "Text of comments by Bush, Rice,"] Associated Press (''Boston Herald''), August 7, 2006.

*H.D.S. Greenway, [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/08/22/wars_of_great_miscalculation/ Editorial: "Wars of great miscalculation,"] ''Boston Globe'', August 22, 2006.

*Saad Eddin Ibrahim, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200978_pf.html Op-Ed: "The 'New Middle East' Bush Is Resisting,"] ''Washington Post'', August 23, 2006.

*Jane Arraf, [http://onthescene.msnbc.com/baghdad/2006/10/calling_bob_in_.html#posts "Calling Bob in Baghdad,"] ''Blogging Baghdad''/MSNBC, October 10, 2006: "I'm more puzzled by comments that the violence isn't any worse than any American city. Really? [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15204665/ In which American city do 60 bullet-riddled bodies turn up on a given day?] In which city do the headless bodies of ordinary citizens turn up every single day? In which city would it not be news if neighborhood school children were blown up? In which neighborhood would you look the other way if gunmen came into restaurants and shot dead the customers?"

*[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101000156.html "110 Bodies Found in Baghdad in 24 Hours,"] Reuters (''Washington Post''), October 11, 2006.

*[[adapting to win]]

*[[Al Qaeda]]

*[[civil war in Iraq]]

*[[democratization]]

*[[funding terrorism]]

*[[HAMAS]]

*[[Iraqi insurgency]]

*[[Islamofascist]]

*[[liquid bomb plot August 2006]]

*[[outposts of tyranny]]

*[[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]]

*[[Taliban]]

*[[terrorism to end terrorism]]

*[[United States as a rogue nation]]

*[[War in Iraq is fueling global terrorism]]