Here’s a sign of real progress in Iraq (news article on sectarianism)

Posted by bruni on August 26, 2008

Posted on Sun, Aug. 03, 2008
Iraqis no longer ask, ‘Are you Sunni or Shiite?’
Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: August 04, 2008 10:42:29 AM

BAGHDAD — For years, when she approached Iraqi Army checkpoints and produced an identification card for soldiers to study for clues about her sect, Nadia Hashim used a simple formula to signal the mostly Shiite Muslim force that she, too, is a Shiite.
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Long Article blaming Conservative ideology for government failures

Posted by bruni on August 19, 2008

Follow This Dime: Why Misgovernment Was No Accident in George W. Bush’s Washington

Monday 04 August 2008

by: Thomas Frank

Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are a thing of the past, that the golden age of misgovernment-for-profit ended with the cavalry charge and the robber barons, at about the same time presidents stopped wearing beards.
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