Anti-U.S. Cleric Returns to Iraq, and to Power

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/world/middleeast/06iraq.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Anti-U.S.%20Cleric%20returns%20to%20Iraq,%20and%20to%20Power&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Subject: re: Anti-U.S. Cleric Returns to Iraq, and to Power
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   What would constitute enough data to make a meaningful judgment on Bush's venture into Iraq? After seven years, $1.1trillion and 4432 American deaths there, Iraq now has a government that  dares not  enforce its own murder laws on one of its citizens.  Abdul Majid al-Khoei was murdered in public eight years ago, yet the government that we have worked so hard to install in Baghdad lacks the will to find the killers.  If this were our goal, we could have had such a failed government much more cheaply.

Barry Levine