so, it's going well then?

Wilson, Brisbane, Australia

It seems to me that a lot of the people in Iraq are more inclined to committing barbaric acts in the name of religion or honour that they are in anything else. Come on you guys . . . will there ever be a democratic society in a place where the people don't want it?

Norm, Guelph Ontario, Canada

Yes PEF, the surge may not be working just yet but what would you rather have occur - leaving Iraq tro the forces of evil who indiscriminately kill and maim is not the solution. US and UK may not have the military position secure but their efforts at quelling the murderous groups at large need support, not mockery.

JC, London, UK

Sir,
The Neo-Con led interventions have just poured petrol on the fire. Billions of $'s worth of "justifiable" arms deals for the incestuous military-industrial complex?

SC, London, United Kingdom

AL (Sacramento)! I didn't know this is a football match and we are supposed to keep scores! What in God's name has the number of people killed by coalition forces got to do with blowing hundreds of innocent men women and children to smithereens simply because you do not like them? The Iraqis are killing EACH OTHER. If they want to fight the coalition forces, then that is entirely a different matter. It's about time Islamic countries stopped blaming the west for all their shortcomings and took responsibility for themselves.

Eamonn, Dublin, Ireland

"We invaded Iraq to remove a brutal dictator and bring democracy to the region." You seriously believe the current US administration has the slightest concern for the well being of the Iraqi people? The US invaded and occupied Iraq to access un-metered oil (petroleum) and stop Saddam Hussein from selling Iraq’s oil in euros. Because if this trend had caught on, the dollar's role as reserve currency would have been in serious jeopardy. And with it the US’s ability to effectively tax the rest of the world. So all that killing in Iraq is over protection of the US (and indirectly the world) economy, and the US citizen's grossly consumptive life-style. Five percent of the world's population consuming 24% of the world's oil production. That’s what’s meant by US sense of entitlement.

Andrew Milner, Yokohama, Kanagawa

It seems that we have killed the devil and unleashed hell; let's dig up Saddam and restore his power.

Martijn Michiels, Nijmegen, Netherlands

This was not a revenge attack,it is sectarian on nonmuslims.
Frankly it's getting to the stage where all fingers which have been pointing to western allies , should be seeing the truth of what is going on now.
The Yazidi's were complete innocents in the eyes of everyone who is not a Muslim.
They were & are targeted , in this case by Sunni's , because they are infidels , meaning nonMulims.
The barbarism of the Islamists knows no bounds, and they wonder why there is a backlash from us on our opinion of the Muslims & their faith.[?]

Maggie Millington, Brittany , France

Eamonn!
How many innocent muslims have been killed by the Christian Coalition Forces? 10's of thousands....Maybe you should clean up your own back yard before you complain about others!

AL, Sacramento, USA

Don't blame it on the Surge falling short. This is merely Islam in action — ther real essence of Islam: genocidal mass murder as first perpetrated by the Prophet of Doom.

Wally, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

Stand up and by counted against criminals. Sadly it will be your children and mine who will reap the repercussions of the inaction and silence of the British media. We lost 52 in London these poor people have lost 10 times that for God sakes let the people express their outrage. Islam is a peaceful religion and I am a Christian I want to be at one with them and not the twisted criminal elements who want to kill their own relatives in the name of Islam.

R Singh, London, UK

yes because that worked so nicely in india and isreal.

It is difficult though, I think you genuinly would see the same kind of horrible bloodshed in the imediate aftermath of succession that happened in india, but we seem to have killing approaching that scale today. I just suspect that the new nations would try to invade one another, which would be even worse.

I dont think iraq is ready to self police, not by many years. The army, security, and police are so sectarian that it is evident they commit many of the killings themselves.

However, america, as the only power that will ever have to power to enforce it, should force mixed units in all services, and make sure the senoir ranks stay mixed. It would be imediately disasterous, but after the dust settled perhaps it would bring a little less death.

tt, uk,

Another 200 innocent people murdered by madmen in Iraq! Could any Muslim kindly tell me why their religion insists on being called "The Religion of Peace"? Also, they might let me know exactly what this latest bloody outrage has to do with western civilisation, or the United States in particular, "offending" or upsetting Islam?

Eamonn, Dublin, Ireland

Post Saddam, the creation of this breeding ground for terrorists has helped no one, least of all the Iraqi people who are suffering en masse as collateral damage as some confused misguided 'insurgents' target anyone, anywhere in the hope of damaging coalition forces. What a mess. At least with Saddam you could keep track of who was responsible for what, now its just all out civil war of the worst kind.

Farrukh, Woking, UK

How secession help the Yazidis? they would still be a minority unless they had their own state too. Often once you start cutting up countries its difficult to know where to stop, people become more community minded and more obsessed with ethnic cleansing.

Mark, Newcastle,

the only solution for iraq, a nation divided is -SECESSION....
why can't they be in the own nation of kurds, sunni's or shi'a or one more united iraq?

bless to, las vegas, nv

Yes, the Surge seems to be working just nicely!

PEF, Prague,