Leaving out important details on Iraq

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Of course they are.

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Administration leaving out important details on Iraq

By MARK SEIBEL
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy of the administration's statements about Iraq.

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But the president's account understates by at least 15 months when Shiite death squads began targeting Sunni politicians and clerics. It also ignores the role that Iranian-backed Shiite groups had in death squad activities prior to the Samarra bombing.

Blaming the start of sectarian violence in Iraq on the Golden Dome bombing risks policy errors because it underestimates the depth of sectarian hatred in Iraq and overlooks the conflict's root causes. The Bush account also fails to acknowledge that Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite groups stoked the conflict.

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16460924.htm

[acmavm]

1. Every story they try to sell leaves out important facts as well as

being really light on the truth.

Pick a subject, they've lied about it.

[azurnoir]

2. It is unfortunate but true IMHO

that the only thing that stopped this from happening prior to invasion was Saddam's iron fisted rule. As I posted a couple days ago a Kurdish friend of our family predicted this would happen, he is no fan of Saddam and is in this country because of Saddam's persecution of the Kurds, and I will admit at the time this conversation took place 3/03 I thought WTF? However it may well be true that there was a reason that Saddam ruled the way he did and his replacement will have to be much the same.