7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War

We are becoming pretty accustomed to hearing reports in the media as to the grim events in Iraq, often accompanied with claims from 'Coalition of the Willing' politicians as to how the situation is 'getting better'. Yet in reality, as people there report, it has been getting steadily worse and the 'Iraqi Army' or 'Iraqi Government' we hear mentioned so often is in reality no where near as representative as such terms might indicate. In fact, at any time it could well lose control of vast swarths of the country if the Coalition forces were to leave.

We are getting used to hearing lies, damned lies and statistics- well here instead is a bit of analysis. I'm not really in a position to verify or otherwise what the following author has to say, but the gist of it is that the Western, primarily American forces being stationed there, with enormous international opposition and an increasingly vocal one within the US itself, may in fact be doing more harm than good as far as stablising the county goes. So here are his- 7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War.