27 more dead in the non-civil war in Iraq.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence

Of course, there's the reassuring words from a couple of days ago from that American General, that things are "going very, very well."

[Sensitivity]

1. Ant-war marches should begin again: It's a bloody crime

[xchrom]

2. the brutality that we have unleashed is going to

continue for years.

if this isn't a civil war then george bush is an ass.

oh. wait...

[benburch]

3. Only an undertaker could think this was going well. nt

[Clark2008]

5. And even they would get tired of being overworked. n/t

[I give]

4. middle east

The Shiites and Sunnis have never gotten along.

[rooboy]

6. That's not true at all.

In fact many families in Iraq have sunnis and shiites intermarried throughout.

[I give]

7. ?

Aren't they at odds about some major tenets of their religion?

[rooboy]

8. Iraq has never had a proper civil war.

Just as my wife is a Catholic and I'm a protestant, Iraqi tribes have both Sunni and Shia in the families. The divisions between the faiths have been largely accepted, but just like the Republicans are trying to marginalize Democrats and liberals, some of the more unscrupulous are playing on these differences now. This is why there is so much suspicion being placed upon the Interior Ministry - they seem to be responsible for most of the killings.

Iraq has never actually had a civil war over religion. The differences which brought Saddam Hussein to power weren't religious, but political (e.g. Socialist vs Capitalist).