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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
What are the three pivot points in your opinion?
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First, the initial invasion and the elimination of Sadaam's military to wage war or to instigate Israel into the conflict.
The second:
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Bombers blasted the gilded dome of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines into naked steel and gaping blue sky Wednesday in a provocative assault that roused tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites into angry protests and deadly clashes.
The highest spiritual leaders of Iraq's Shiite majority simultaneously rallied and restrained the outrage of their followers after the attack on the Askariya shrine in Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad. Though no casualties were reported, the bombing was the most destructive attack on a major shrine since the U.S. invasion, and Iraqi leaders said it was meant to draw Shiites and Sunnis into war. "This is as 9/11 in the United States," said Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite and one of Iraq's two vice presidents.
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Bombing Shatters Mosque In Iraq
Prior to the bombing political progress was being made in Iraq. Afterward sectarian violence increased and US forces seem to loose control.
The third was the "surge".