[Mb-civic] U.S. Is Its Own Worst Enemy in Iraq

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U.S. Is Its Own Worst Enemy in Iraq 
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Robert Scheer

May 17 2005

So far this month, more than 450 Iraqis and dozens of U.S. troops have been killed by an Iraqi insurgency that, even after two years, shows signs of intensifying. Yet the Bush administration, which originally expected U.S. troops to be greeted as liberators and then promised that elections would fatally undermine the rebel cause, remains clueless as to the composition of this virulent enemy. 

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