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Of course this blowback comes as no surprise to the anti-war movement – and I mean the real anti-war movement, not the partisan hacks and fools who were against invading Iraq under Bush but are now cheering on “humanitarian intervention” (aka bombing with enough media support) under Obama.

Bombs won’t solve the Isis problem

by Richard Seymour on 16-09-2014

Even the left is demanding quick solutions to the horror and immediacy of the Isis beheadings. But the situation in Iraq is too complex for simplistic thinking

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Seven key points from Obama's Isis speech and what they actually mean

by Spencer Ackerman on 14-09-2014

All this makes the current war a preventive one, which international law tends to consider illegal and illegitimate without United Nations sanction, regardless of the venality of the foe or the assemblage of the coalition of nations against it.

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The last thing Iraq needs is more misguided military action by the west

by Sami Ramadani on 14-09-2014

In Iraq the US and Britain created state institutions to entrench sectarian divisions with the aim of implementing the so-called Joe Biden plan to divide Iraq into three ethnic regions with, importantly, a very weak central government.

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The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again

by Trevor Timm on 14-09-2014

Of course, there are already ground troops in Iraq, fighting alongside the Kurds – we just call them “advisors”, which is another innocuous euphemism for special forces.

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