At least six Kurdish forces were killed in shelling overnight Saturday in northern Iraq in a shadowy incident that appeared to further muddy the waters of a conflict that threatens to split this country into autonomous Sunni-, Shiite-, and Kurdish-ruled territories. The deepening crisis in Iraq has highlighted the failings of both Iraq’s current government — which Iraqi Sunnis have long accused of fomenting a sectarian divide — and the U.S. forces that helped bring it to power after the American ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003. On Sunday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair defended the U.S. and U.K.-led invasion of the country, telling the BBC that even without the eight-year occupation, “you would have still had a major problem in Iraq.” “You know, we can rerun the debates about 2003 — and there are perfectly legitimate points on either side — but where we are […]