What this demonstrates is that Iraq is really skating on the edge of chaos, that things can go very bad very quickly.

We're calling for an immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal from Iraq. It's the occupation itself that's causing the chaos and violence.

We believe that a peaceful solution to the chaos caused by the illegal war in Iraq will only be possible when the occupying foreign armies have all been removed so that the Iraqi people will be free to decide on their own political future.

While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Any premature departure of international troops would lead to chaos and the real possibility of a civil war in Iraq,

Is it going to resolve the sectarian killings? No. Is it going to end the insurgency? No.