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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The war in Iraq just isn't going gently into the night, is it? Sunday's parliamentary election took place amid a backdrop of mortar, grenade and bomb attacks in Baghdad and other major cities. The good news is that the elections went ahead and people voted. But the extreme political fragmentation that characterizes the country -- with some 6,000 candidates, from more than 80 parties, chasing a mere 325 parliamentary seats -- means that whatever coalition government results will be necessarily fragile. And even as President Obama praised Iraqi voters for their bravery in casting their ballots, ...
LONDON (Nov. 25) -- Almost seven years after Britain joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and amidst a still blazing public debate, a government-appointed panel has launched a sweeping investigation into why the country went to war and why British forces were so poorly prepared for the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein. "We've waited a long time for this," says Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq in 2004. "I want to know why our troops were sent to Iraq in the first place, why we unquestioningly followed America, and why our ...
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