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I really think that someone has been massively aerosol spraying the ‘Mission Accomplished’ meme all over the western media.  Newsflash bitches: Iraq is still broken and not getting better.

“At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bombing at the provincial government building in the Iraqi city of Ramadi.

Police sources told Al Jazeera that a female suicide bomber entered the deputy governor’s office and blew herself up.”

I am thinking that people blowing themselves up in your parliament buildings is not usually a sign of peaceable progress toward a democratic state.

“More than 20 people were wounded in the blast.

“At least four people were killed and 23 others wounded, including women and children, by a female suicide bomber at the entrance to the provincial government building,” an interior ministry official said.”

Mission Accomplished, indeed.  Is this the climate for any sort of reasonable governance to take place?

“Violence in the region has dropped from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but bombings and assassinations remain common.”

Err.  No.  The situation in Iraq is like trying to paint your house during a rainstorm and the only solution you can think of is using more paint.

“Many Iraqis worry that the ongoing political impasse, with no one able to form a government four months after parliamentary elections, will lead to increased violence.”

Whoa, no functioning government for four months?  You think that little tidbit would be making the rounds on CNN and MSNBC.  I would think that a nation’s imperialist conquests would be of utmost concern, or at least page two news once and awhile.

I really wish someone in the massive american military industrial complex had done their homework.  Iraq was held together by an authoritarian secular regime that actively repressed the various cultural and religious in the region.  Did they think that everyone would just kiss and make up after being repressed for so long?  How would a democracy function in  a society split along almost diametrically opposed religious and cultural fault lines?

Kinda like a chaotic higglety pigglety mess would be my estimation.