Why Iraq's Not Getting Better
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Despite optimism on the U.S. campaign trail, the choices in Baghdad are looking grim
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq is continuing to fall, data published by Iraqi ministries suggest.
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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Iraq's health system is in a far worse condition than before the war, a British medical charity says.
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Unlike his boss (George Bush), who claims Iraq is making steady progress towards the election next year, the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, admits that the violence in Iraq is getting worse.
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Iraq's fragmented leadership is struggling to meet the major benchmarks that it has pledged to the United States to achieve soon, with political wrangling and a chaotic legislature standing in the way.
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WASHINGTON -- A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to success much more tenuous, than is being expressed in public by top Bush administration officials, according to former and current government officials and assessments over the past year by intelligence officials at the CIA and departments ...
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's political leaders have failed to reach agreement on nearly every law that the United States has demanded as a benchmark, despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House, and top military commanders. With only three months until reports on progress are due in Washington, the deadlock has reached a point where many Iraqi and US officials now ...
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WASHINGTON -- Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of US military forces, the top American commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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Iraq is now the second most unstable country in the world, a private survey finds, its standing deteriorating from last year's fourth place on a list of the 10 nations most vulnerable to violent internal conflict and worsening conditions.
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THE US-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein opened a Pandora&#39;s box and the situation in Iraq was not getting any better, French President Jacques Chirac said today.
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The president is facing intense pressure to adjust an Iraq strategy that most experts conclude is failing.
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Yet it&#39;s clear chaos has escalated and violence is becoming more co-ordinated. Some experts are calling Iraq a potential &quot;super rogue state&quot; and the next Lebanon.
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Iraq has one of the world's largest oil reserves, but the Iraqi army can't get enough fuel for its tanks. It also can't get spare parts for its trucks or supply ammunition on its own.
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The triumph of Jan. 30 is a fact. The shame is that Iraq-war foes can't admit it
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Arab countries are struggling to absorb a flood of Iraqis fleeing the violence in their country. A look at the problem: