Iraq is on the verge of collapse:

How is an occupied state ever not a failed state?

Just wondering.......

Iraq is on the verge of collapse: report | International | Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and fragmentation, a leading British think-tank said on Thursday.

Chatham House also said there was not one civil war in Iraq, but 'several civil wars' between rival communities, and accused Iraq's main neighbors -- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- of having reasons 'for seeing the instability there continue.'

'It can be argued that Iraq is on the verge of being a failed state which faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation,' it said in a report.