Sad, sad stuff going down in Basra, especially considering that the civil war is supposed to be over. Here are a few links that sort through the mess and explain why we're getting involved. Suffice it to say that it is not pretty. And it probably involves bases.
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Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.
