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Iraq Uses Barrel Bombs as Civilians Flee Fallujah Onslaught

http://news.antiwar.com/2014/05/16/iraq-uses-barrel-bombs-as-civilians-flee-fallujah-onslaught/

"What a magnificent job the US government has done, bringing peace and democracy to Iraq!!Look just how wonderfully the "duly elected" government of Iraq is taking care of its people; by bombing them back to the stone age, if the US military hadn't already done the job.

No matter how cynical I get, I just cannot keep up.

This civil war, now aided and abetted by outside rebels, is clearly the result of the US invasion and occupation.

Women, children, the medically fragile, and the elderly are getting killed and maimed with impunity by both their government, and by the rebels.

Before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, this country had one of the highest standards of living in the middle east, with one of the best infrastructures in the region, and one of the highest levels of education; national attributes which the government of Israel, of course, could not stand." - Michael Rivero