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<\/a>Dexter Filkins’s huge piece this morning, “Armed Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos,”<\/strong><\/font><\/a> follows up on his colleague Sabrina Tavernise’s recent report<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and fleshes out what Nir Rosen and Ahmed Hashim had to say<\/strong><\/font><\/a> a couple of weeks ago at the Council on Foreign Relations. Just thought you might like to know, if you didn’t already.\nFilkins is well worth reading. Like Rosen, Hashim, and Tavernise, he gives the lie to relentless claims of progress in Iraq<\/strong><\/font><\/a> offered by the Bullshitter-in-Chief<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and his regime. Whether it’s beginning a new chapter<\/i> or turning a corner<\/i>, when it comes to reining in the death squads, one candid American official in Baghdad said there’s been no action by Iraq’s new so-called unity government. “None,” the official told Filkins. “Zero.” Given this<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and this<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and this<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and this<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and this<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, and any number of other items I could cite, that should come as no surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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