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Exactly who is stoking a civil war in Iraq?
IN a war based on lies, the latest lie is that somehow the West is in Iraq as some sort of honest broker between warring factions. The truth is the opposite . . .
Everything that happens in Iraq is the West's responsibility. Our illegal, immoral war broke the bonds that held Iraqi society together and, for the first time in the country's history, Shia, Sunni and Kurds are killing each other. The Americans have given out hundreds of thousands of guns to all sides, including former members of al Qaida and people who have killed US soldiers.
Meanwhile, in southern Iraq the British knowingly recruited sectarian militias into the police, which led to a situation of Shia killing Shia.
Exactly who is stoking a civil war?
Mark Holt,
Chair,
Merseyside Stop the War Coalition
(address supplied)
2:37pm Tuesday 29th April 2008
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