has a much longer history than our having Presidents named Bush. Bush was an asshole who got thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed but he certainly is not responsible for the Sunni vs Shiite nonsense. That goes back hundreds of years. It was the Baathist Sunnis that were killing Shiites when sadaam was in power.

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... to happen. Bush helped to opened up a bloody hole of sectarian violence by his ill thought
out Iraqi war. I remember Ambassador Joe Wilson* saying that Iraq had 105 different
sides and they all hate each other to some extent and that the power vacuum will lead
to all kinds of problems.

* Feb. 2003

a lid on the violence was a brutal dictator - that's just the facts.

,,,, Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

and even if he did, he couldn't care less. He really believed we were going to have flowers thrown at our feet and the middle east was suddenly going to turn into a garden of eden where everyone wanted the same secular government.

We're winning????

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=national+review+%22we%27re+winning%22&um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=737&tbm=isch&tbnid=3wyLKuFQLqOa1M:&imgrefurl=http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/09/11/16149/national-review-dont-ever-leave/&docid=Da00l4MXMLKLnM&itg=1&imgurl=&w=399&h=272&ei=5iyaUfenOrP_4AOuu4DYBg&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:2,s:0,i:86&iact=rc&dur=5847&page=1&tbnh=185&tbnw=266&start=0&ndsp=17&tx=43&ty=84

BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years.

The bloodshed is still far shy of the pace, scale and brutality of the dark days of 2006-2007, when Sunni and Shiite militias carried out retaliatory attacks against each other in a cycle of violence that left the country awash in blood. Still, Monday's attacks, some of which hit markets and crowded bus stops during the morning rush hour, have heightened fears that the country could be turning back down the path toward civil war.

Sectarian tensions have been worsening since Iraq's minority Sunnis began protesting what they say is mistreatment at the hands of the Shiite-led government. The mass demonstrations, which began in December, have largely been peaceful, but the number of attacks rose sharply after a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in northern Iraq on April 23.

Iraq's Shiite majority, which was oppressed under the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now holds the levers of power in the country. Wishing to rebuild the nation rather than revert to open warfare, they have largely restrained their militias over the past five years or so as Sunni extremist groups such as al-Qaida have targeted them with occasional large-scale attacks.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/iraq-car-bombs-basra-kill-least-10-people

Mohammedans are still fighting among themselves; and so are Christians. Politicians engage in mindless theater in attempt to destroy each other. Old people get sick and die. The rich stay rich and get richer, while everyone else works to support them, or indulge in gambling, in the vain hope that they themselves will one day be rich.