‘US opened Pandora’s box in Iraq, regional sectarian violence almost impossible to stop now’

[Purveyor]

Sectarian violence unleashed after the US disintegration of Iraq is linked to the Syrian conflict and the death toll will only climb since extremist elements hijacked the sectarian instability in the region, political analyst Chris Bambery told RT.

“Everyone in Iraq must be terrified that the situation in Syria is spilling over into Iraq” Bambery said as Tuesday’s attacks in the country kill over 40, a day after over 70 people were murdered, escalating fears of all-out sectarian war between minority Sunnis and majority Shiites.

In the biggest incident on Tuesday, a car bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in Baghdad killing 11 people and injuring 21.

In a separate incident, a bomb outside a cafe in southern Baghdad killed six more and wounded 18.

A decade after the hanging of Saddam Hussein, Iraq is bitterly divided between the Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites and with no power-sharing deal insight, violence is again on the rise.

“It is based on the decision by the Americans when they occupied Iraq to separate Iraq off into these three areas,” Bambery told the viewers.

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[Octafish]

1. Mission Accomplished...

Money trumps peace, commercial interests, excess population and all that.

My heart has broken for Iraq since Poppy lied us into war in 1990.

[FrodosPet]

2. No doubt! Saddam kept them in check

If a group of Kurds or Shia got out of line, he might have made some villages disappear, maybe hit them with some chemical weapons, but at least America's hands were clean (except for the chemical weapons technology we sold him).

[HiPointDem]

3. and putting him into power in the first place so he could kill communists

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Remember what Collin Powell said;

This is the Pottery Barn effect in full view of the whole world. We broke it,now we must pay for it. Thanks Georgie Boy,you war criminal.

[Javaman]

8. I think of it more as the manufacturing plant for Pottery Barn...

as each and every vase comes off the conveyor belt, it's smashed to pieces.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. I think that is generally an accurate assessment.

And both regional (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) and international (US, UK, Germany, France, Russia) powers seem determined to fan the flames. Although I really see the Gulf Arabs as mainly making the Syrian round possible, by financing the uprising to the tune of billions of dollars.

[DCKit]

6. As the war criminals who lied us into Iraq would say....

"Who could have seen THAT coming?"

[madokie]

7. Smells of war crimes

and yes by the USA, or the dick and w and crew to be exact. Along with a complicit congress

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. Another cost of "Looking forward". The U.S., not shrub, opened the box...

If only someone had warned us...

Was this one of the unknown unknowns?

I guess we can always fall back on the old "mistakes were made" evasion.

[xchrom]

10. du rec. nt

[Zorra]

11. Neoliberalism as a puzzle: the useless global unity which fragments and destroys nations

The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle

[sabrina 1]

12. Don't forget what Michael Ledeen, one of the main architects of the Iraq invasion, said about their

PNAC neocon plans. I don't have the direct quote, but it went something like 'turning the entire ME into a sheet of glass' starting with Iraq, followed by Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Libya and a few others he named, not necessarily in that order.

The neocon plan has succeeded but no one ever said, except them, that it was a good plan for the US. However, the people went along with. We get what we deserve therefore, until the people wake up and start prosecuting those who are responsible for this disaster.