Just ran across this and wondered what folks here would say?
Perhaps this was a successful week then, when 149 civilians were reported dead. Or maybe February was a good month: national reconciliation was perhaps evident during a month when nearly 1,000 civilians died in violence, 47 of them children, as many as 62 killed by US forces.
Oh yes, and Iraq was invaded by Turkey too. An ‘incursion,’ they called it. Aimed at destroying PKK targets, with the blessings of the chief invader and occupier. Not that the US is not concerned about this development; Defence Secretary Robert Gates voiced the ‘principal concerns’ of the Bush administration last week: that the Turkish offensive could be prolonged, bloody and – ultimately – ineffective. Like the American offensive then. Luckily, it was not as prolonged, as it turned out, as Turkish forces withdrew after a week, and after having killed over 230 people (or ‘PKK targets’).
As for the Iraqi government, it has condemned the Turkish offensive as a ‘violation of Iraqi sovereignty.’ A condition also known as ‘the sovereignty delusion.’
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/beyond/week-in-iraq/
