Griper News: Iraqi Elections Believed to Have Worsened Divisions, Report Says

Things aren't going as well as Bushco would have us believe -- do they ever? It looks like the elections only deepened sectarian divisions. From McClatchy Newspapers:

Iraq's political process has sharpened the country's sectarian divisions, polarized relations between its ethnic and religious groups, and weakened its sense of national identity, the Government Accountability Office said Monday.

In spite of a sharp increase in Sunni-Shiite violence, however, attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces are still the primary source of bloodshed in Iraq, the report found. It was the latest in a series of recent grimassessments of conditions in Iraq.

But the report was unusual in its sweep, relying on a series of other government studies, some of them previously unpublicized, to touch on issues from violence and politics to electricity production. Published on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the GAO report was downbeat in its conclusions - underscoring how Iraq's deteriorating security situation threatens the Bush administration's goal of a stable and democratic regime in Baghdad.

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Maybe they should've done something like, oh, understand the culture before they tried to remake it.

That might've been a good idea...