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bellum omnium contra omnes

Hard-line Shiite militias in Baghdad have issued a blanket death sentence for homosexuals, lesbians, prostitutes, liberal professors and booksellers.
One person is being assassinated in Basra every hour as order in Iraq's second city disintegrates [...] The number of killings is now at a level close to that of Baghdad [...] Police no longer dare go where a murder has taken place because they are frightened of being attacked.
A Pentagon probe into the death of Iraqi civilians last November in the Iraqi city of Haditha will show that U.S. Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood," a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday.
A shooting and carbombing at a packed market in Baghdad claimed 23 lives and wounded at least 38 people, officials said.
Al-Zaman's sources told it that Basra is in chaos and dominated by militias and lawless gangs. Automobiles with darkened windows cruise the streets, armed militiamen within, who impose their law on the city.
On August 2, 2004, more than a dozen Christian worshippers were killed when five Armenian, Assyrian and Chaldean churches came under co-ordinated attacks in the capital Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
The report on food security and vulnerability in Iraq said almost one child in every 10 aged between six months and five years, suffered acute malnourishment.
Security contractors supporting the U.S. effort in Iraq regularly shoot into civilian cars with little accountability, according to a News & Observer analysis of more than 400 reports contractors filed with the government.

Life in Iraq is now:
solitary,
poor,
nasty,
brutish,
short.

Mission Accomplished!

(links via My Blahg, Juan Cole, No Capital, Hugo Zoom)

—orc Wed May 17 23:05:09 2006

Comments

You forgot to add, “Oil prices (and futures) at an all time high with no sign of future reductions.” Or is that just a side effect bonus rather than an intentional outcome.

Oh, wait. This government doesn’t seem to deliver any intentional outcomes.

Lynn Thu May 18 08:09:52 2006

I’m not sure if it’s a side-effect or the original intent, but the United States has not yet collapsed into the sort of Hobbsian anarchy which Iraq has slid into. Given that the B*sh junta has so far left every single state they’ve “helped” in a state of complete disarray, I am beginning to believe that this is what they want the United States to look like, but for now Iraq is the best example of bellum omnium contra omnes the world has.

David Parsons Thu May 18 18:03:45 2006

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