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After the invasion split government revenues and power between the main ethnic and sectarian groups. now, that first of all encouraged prodigious corruption. and, ever since then, the elites have been arguing about their own slices of the cake. what it has not done is encouraged strong government, which is why two tribes were able to use this area as their own personal war zone, only about 50 miles from baghdad. at the department of mass graves, dna tests on unearthed human remains have identifi...

The security forces. if you hadnt had the invasion of 2003, what kind of country might you have now? translation: only god knows that. but generally, the regime became democratic, which is better. but the security situation was managed very badly. the rival tribes had a pitched battle here. the reason why successive governments have failed to grip the country goes back to the weak foundations the us occupation left behind. the political system the americans eventually introduced a couple of year...