In Iraq, fears of a civil war

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10298380/from/RS.5/

There is another war taking place in Iraq. It's much less noted, but one by one, Sunnis are killing Shiites and Shiites are murdering Sunnis. It's a war of retribution and intimidation. Iraqis fear it more than the insurgency.

"This polarization has to end," says Sunni legislator Adnan Pachachi. "Otherwise it could lead to disaster for the country."

Each day, new funerals are held on both sides — the casualties of a simmering sectarian war inflicted by armed militias and shadowy assassins who don't fit the neat definition of insurgents.

While most Iraqi's don't yet call it civil war, it is, at its worst, a form of ethnic cleansing.

[catmother]

1. and we're going to make them a democracy. i say get the

hell out of there and let them kill each other. enough of our people have been sacrificed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Civil war now or civil war later. That is the only choice.

Pick one.

[libodem]

3. it is a civil war, already

even the new police and army recruits are targeting groups they don't like. And i'm thinking that a lot of folks over there figure the new police and army recruits are traitors whom are consorting with the 'enemy'. Plus it's damn hard to tell if the new police and army recruits are not double agents, waiting for the first opportunity to kidnap or suicide bomb the people they are working for. It's a fricking mess.