By Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post
March 13, 2007
Calling it a “tragic escalation of sectarian rage and reprisal”, President Bush and his administration still hold Feb. 22, 2006 to be the day that everything in Iraq changed for the worse. On that date over a year ago, a the golden dome at the Shrine in Samarra was attacked – reversing the course of the progress that had been made in national elections and the forming of the infant government. However, there are many who disagree with that notion. They contend that the attack did not signify a civil war, but rather simply brought the fact that one was prevalent to the naked eye. Even a former Pentagon policy maker called the bombing “gasoline on a fire that already was burning pretty well.” Amazingly enough, the bombing did not kill anyone, it just shattered the roof of the dome and hopes for a new Iraq to be on course for its success. The bombing has followed a steady pace of increasing violence in Iraq, which shows that the bombing might have not made any type of impact on where the situation is today. I think that this article clearly shows that the President and his administration should have known, or did know, that the situation was escalating quickly in the region, and that this attack is almost a scapegoat for the administration to change course and fully realize that atrocity happening within Iraq.
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I can't agree more with you the Bush administration has known that what is going on in Iraq right now is not a good situation and they knew this before the bombing of this shrine more than a year ago. Noone was killed in this bombing just some infrastructure was damaged, what about all the hundreds of roadside bombings that have killed many people this is just a scapegoat we know what is happening in Iraq and so does Bush.
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