Little to Celebrate in Iraq

thenation.com — More than six years after the U.S. invasion, Iraq is shattered. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead — far more, incidentally, than even the largest estimates of the number of Iraqis who died during 35 years of Saddam Hussein's rule — its social fabric is utterly destroyed, its economy is in ruins, and its dominant political faction is in hock to neighboring Iran. And now what?

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