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AS 2006 winds down, two developments inside Iraq stand out: the failure of the previous years election to produce any sense of progress, and the commencement of Iraqs civil war, dating back to the Feb. 22 bombing of the hallowed Shiite mosque in Samarra and escalating ever since.
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