Consider 1 day in the life of the Bush democratization of the middle east.

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By Rami G. Khouri
Daily Star staff
Saturday, August 05, 2006



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Here's a snapshot of events Thursday, a day in the life of the Bush-Blair freedom strategy. In Washington, the general who commands American forces in the Middle East frankly warned a Senate committee that sectarian violence in Iraq, especially in Baghdad, had become so severe that all of Iraq was in danger of sliding into civil war. The United Nations had reported a few days earlier that, on average, more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq last month. Elsewhere, two bombs exploded in a Baghdad soccer stadium, killing 12 people. A senior British diplomat in Baghdad told Blair in a private memo that "the prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy."
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In Palestine, Israeli troops again raided southern Gaza using tanks and aerial bombardment, killing seven Palestinians. In just over a month, Israel has killed at least 158 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, while Palestinians continue to fire rockets into Israel and still hold a captured Israeli soldier.

In Afghanistan, a suicide bomber blew up his car in the center of a small-town bazaar, killing 21 civilians. Hours earlier, four NATO soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in two attacks in the same area.

In Lebanon, Israel bombed many targets and pursued its ground invasion of the South of the country, while Hizbullah fired scores of rockets at Israeli towns, with dozens killed and wounded on both sides.

All of this, remember, is the harvest of just one day in Bush-Blair's march to freedom in the Middle East....

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1. yep, we're blowing up the planet

so we don't have to fight them here.