Tiocfaidh, I assume you're referring to things closer to home. You're right it should never have got that far, there always was something to negotiate about: here there isn't.

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Gunmen have killed at least 12 Iraqi workers travelling home by bus from a factory in the western outskirts of the capital, Baghdad.

At least five people were killed and up to 10 were wounded in a suicide bomb blast outside a Baghdad hospital.

A group claiming to be al-Qaeda in Iraq says it has killed two Algerian diplomats

This is just today. Sure it's all about Bush