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" I know the blog is rather a one-note pianny today, but we would be remiss if we didn&amp;#039;t point out that the last excellent adventure that a president embarked on in the Middle East with the approval of the Congress is still a rather big cluster of fk. It was not immediately clear who had carried out the attacks, which appeared coordinated, but Sunni Islamist militants, including an al Qaeda-affiliate, have been regaining momentum in their insurgency against the Shi&amp;#039;ite-led government. Tuesday&amp;#039;s deadliest blast took place in Baghdad&amp;#039;s northern Talbiya neighborhood, where a car bomb in a busy street killed nine people. More than two years of civil war in neighboring Syria have aggravated deep-rooted sectarian divisions in Iraq, fraying an uneasy coalition of Shi&amp;#039;ite, Sunni and ethic Kurdish factions. About 800 Iraqis were killed in August, according to the United Nations, with more than a third of the deadly attacks in Baghdad. The bloodshed, 18 months after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, has stirred concerns about a relapse towards the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07. But all we have to do in Syria is make sure that the opposition wins, because the opposition is all moderates. John McCain said so. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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