BAGHDAD — Iraq closed a painful decade just as it began: with explosions reverberating around the capital.
Beginning in the early morning Tuesday with the assassination of a Ministry of Finance official by a bomb attached to his vehicle and continuing for hours, the attacks were a devastating reminder of the violence that regularly afflicts Iraq.

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This should be required reading for Jeff Jacoby who's column today stated that, "On balance, the Iraq war was worth it."
the military industrial complex, and congress supporters got us into this wasteful war, and are clamoring for the next one in yet again the middle east with syria or iran...this is why we need sen paul as next president and end this nonsense forever
"Mission Accomplished!" George Dubyah Bush
"Mission accoumplished" Barack Hussein Obama...If Iraq becomes a province of Shiite Iran, Obama will say, "The people of Iraq have spoken in free elections".
Apparently the only elections which you consider legitimate are ones in which Republicans get elected.