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The Coming Civil War

To the naive belongs the blood.

More than 100 people have been killed in
Iraq in revenge and other attacks since the bombing Wednesday morning of one
of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, an Interior Ministry official and the American
military said today. The dead included a number of prominent Sunni clerics and
seven American soldiers.
Sectarian
Fury Turns Violent in Wake of Iraq Shrine Blast

They promised “a river of blood” and today they've begun
to deliver.

Muqtada
al-Sadr asks for calm, with Sistani feeling desperate.

Terror Guy called the mosque blast yesterday an “evil act”
and a “political act,” calling for calm. But seriously, President
Bush was warned.

A classified cable sent by the Central
Intelligence Agency's station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation
in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government
officials. 2
C.I.A. Reports Offer Warnings on Iraq's Path

Civil war and the possible establishment
of a post-Saddam Iranian-style theocracy are among the future consequences
that may be faced, Hagel said. The senator warned about such possibilities
when he argued against a precipitate U.S. military attack Hagel
blasts civilian bosses in Pentagon

Many people warned
of an Iraqi civil war, but Bush ignored them all.

Today we lost 7 U.S. soldiers.

We are mired in a “stay the course” menatality that
is getting us nowhere. There are no easy answers, which seems to have paralyzed
the Congress into allowing President Bush to remain stuck in a “victory”
at all cost stance that is unrealistic at best and murderous for our troops
at worst. Are we really going to continue this course, putting our soldiers
in the middle of a brewing civil war?

A question that is met with silence.

“The war could really be
on now,'' says Abu Hassan, a Shiite street peddler who declined to
give his full name. “This is something greater and more symbolic than
attacks on people. This is a strike at who we are.” Attack
deepens Iraq's divide