Posted 9:03 AM by extinct

Civil War in Iraq

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK623643.htm

Whereas once politicians were not willing to utter the term for fear of dignifying it, it is no longer taboo. "I do not want to say civil war, but we are going the Lebanese route, and we know where that led," says Sabah Kadhim, an adviser to the Interior Ministry who spent years in exile before returning to Iraq after Saddam Hussein's overthrow. "We are going to end up with certain areas that are controlled by certain warlords ... It's Sunni versus Shi'ite, that is the issue...

Well, maybe it will be a democratic civil war.