if America stayed in Iraq would that stop a civil war between sonnah and shiea ?
459680
They are engaged in civil war now. Whether we leave now or in a 100 years there is going to be a civil war. 50 Iriqi dead every day. One or the other groups and sometimes both.
12052
it will never end. as long as there is Iraqis all over the place, then that war wont be over. They not allow any foreigners rule over them... just put yourself on their shoes, would you allow bin ladden rule over america? :P
937805
LET THEM SORT IT OUT..\n\nAMERICA HAD A CIVIL WAR..\n\nMANY COUNTRIES HAVE...\n\nTHEIR RELIGION-THEIR PEOPLE-LET THEM SETTLE ALLAH AND SUCH.
1036909
Yes.  \n\nThe debate over the reasons for being there and was it right or wrong really mean nothing now - it is done.\n\nNow the focus should be on providing the time and opportunity for the Iraqis to form and protect some form of stable government that is satisfactory to all the factions in the country.\n\nCan this happen?   Probably not.  I personally see little hope for a country where the religious leaders control the minds of the people as they do, have their own militias, and can murder the leader of a rival sect and get away with it.
750373
Hmmm, we did buy Louisianna and Alaska... and we did kill off the natives throughout the west... and we did have a war with the south to make them stay in the union...  I just don't think Americans would like the outcome of an Iraq 51st state national election... ha, and I'm pretty sure Iraqi's have no desire to become a US state.
455955
i don't think there would be a civil war here, anyways not with Americans against Americans.... maybe Mexicans against Americans .........but then again i could be wrong, there are a lot of bleeding hearts out there that want the illegal Mexicans here for one reason or another? and yes i would fight along side my American brothers to defeat the invading forces ( that are already here)....
302733
I personally think this war should not have started anyways because if you were in a house and had family problem you would not really like some one from outside jumping in and saying i am here to solve your problem and live in your house, eat all your food and do nothing :) so Iraq had problems but then no one but iraqi's can solve them and i think this war should end now.
405988
Unfortunately, yes.\n\nIt wasn't worth it before the war... now, there's no choice.\n\nIraq was a tyranny, true, but it wasn't a threat for the rest of the world. The invasion destroyed the power structure of the country without stablishing a new one. If the US troops left the country, a true rogue state would appear. As our parents always say, if you break something you've either to fix it or to pay for it (maybe both).\n\nWhen the soviet troops left Afganisthan, they left behind a friendly government with a well-equipped army to fight against the rebels. We all know how it ended, and nobody wants Iraq to end like that.
148079
That's quite possible.  I've actually been seeing this coming for almost 2 years now.  I never saw a different outcome.  I think that preventing the civil war from happening will actually cause more harm than good.  I saw split the country up now -- even without a war.  The country was manufactured after WW1 and has no business putting together groups of people that dont really like each other.
536984
Yes they are in civil war and until it is over and they decide who is going to lead them we won't know, it could be worse then Saddam before it is over. There is nothing that we can do to change it.
1187778
Iraq must split up into three sectarian states --Kurdistan, a Shi'ite province of Iran, and a Sunni landlocked nation.\n\nNo one will die for the geographical "Iraq" as a whole, so the group will keep killing each other until they are separate geopolitical entities.\n\nThe United States should have realized this when then invated in 2003; the US should have invaded and partitioned.  They WERE warned but the warnings were dismissed.\n\nIraq as a united country defending itself does not exist and will not come into existance.
785647
During the LA riots after the Rodney King incident, did you think the US was having a civil war?  What is happening right now in Iraq is that a small group of people is creating small problems.  It's hardly a civil war.
439739
I guess only UK, USA and Iraq leaders are insistently rejecting the civil war. I wonder how many more tortured death Iraqi bodies should be found in the streets to make them accept it, accept the CIVIL WAR and that IT WAS A MISTAKE. I am against foreigner interferrence in Iraq since the beginning. But I hope USA & UK is not planning to leave Iraq without cleaning up THEIR MESS. \n\n\nOFFICIAL: UNDECLARED CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ\n\n".....\n\nDespite the violence, U.S. officials have discounted talk of civil war. However, A SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIAL said Saturday that an "UNDECLARED CIVIL WAR" had already been raging for MORE THAN A YEAR.\n\n"Is there a civil war? Yes, there is an undeclared civil war that has been there for a year or more," Maj. Gen. Hussein Kamal told The Associated Press. "All these bodies that are discovered in Baghdad, the slaughter of pilgrims heading to holy sites, the explosions, the destruction, the attacks against the mosques are all part of this."\n\nHis comments were echoed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.\n\n"Civil war has almost started among Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds and those who are coming from Asia. The situation is uneasy and I don't know how would Iraq be brought together," Mubarak said in an interview broadcast Saturday on Al-Arabiya satellite television.\n\n...."  \n\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-04-08-iraq_x.htm\n\n\n"..We have replaced a military dictatorship with a religious one, for the time being. Now we have Islamic parties, both Sunni and Shia and they are imposing their ideology on the people. No-one is capable of standing up to them. Lots of the killing we are seeing, and the violence, is because of this kind of ideology. \n\nIf you stand up, you will be eliminated. SO WHAT'S NEW? It's the same thing as under Saddam, but now we are dealing WITH SEVERAL SADDAMS, not just one..." Saad Al-Izzi /Iraqi\n\n\n" I want my message to reach the Americans themselves. If their goal was to create the new Middle East and the foundation of a democratic example of a country that chooses its leaders, then I will tell them that the result of their military action is totally the opposite. \n\nThe majority of people in the Middle East are now holding their leaders close to them even if they are unfair, because they fear facing the same fate as Iraq. \n\nTHE MILITARY ACTION DID NOT WORK....." Samir Ali / Iraqi\n\n\nLife in Iraq: Ask our panel \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4883964.stm
677178
true..... but if there were 3 separate nations, then they would just be three separate nations always at war instead of three separate sects at civil war.
639267
no,not at all.if the chinees or russians destroy your country,kill your people,steal your assets,even your history,will you begreatfull for them.the iraqies,all arebs,all muslims ,and all thehonest people in this world who refuse humilation and opression will hate usa till dooms day.\nwuttwutt.have you been to iraq,or at least are you listining to the news????which electricity you are talking about,thr two houres a day!!arent you ashamed of these lies.who destroyed the electricty stations since 91.you talke about water!!!if water is clean,why your soldiers drink kuwaiti bottled water?sanitation???go to the capital to see with your bare eyes the lakes of sewage covering most of its streets,rather entering their houses.\nthese lies could be passed on naive people 20 years ago,not after the world had become a small village.
832158
Simply put... NO.\n\nFirst off, the British method is "divide and rule."  We definitely don't want to stay in Iraq any longer than we have to.  Sure Bush's buddies at the oil companies are getting rich and Cheney's Halliburton is getting a kings ransom in defense contracts, but even they have limits to their greed.  \n\nI don't think that the the American military was sophisticated enough to distinguish between Sunni and Shiite.  They have people that could, but I doubt they listened to them.  We don't want to touch Iran because we have not proven ourselves against them.  How could we hit Iran when Iraq is just sitting there ripe for the picking?  Iran is too big of a fish to fry at this point.  If we overwhelming succeeded in Afghanistan and Iraq we would have Iran cornered on two sides, then we might think about going after the ayatollahs.  This is not the case, I think we want to get out as soon as possible (which could be never).
944339
What would happen?  The civil war and mass killings would happen sooner instead of later, and the US and Iraqis being killed daily would not be.\n\nYou don't go into a country until you're invited, and the US wasn't.  Even *with* Saddam in charge, the Iraqis never wanted the US to invade.  \n\nIt's the same story in Iran: the democratic forces don't want the US to invade, they want the US to fluck off and stop harassing their country.  (It WAS the US, after all that overthrew the Iranian DEMOCRACY in 1953 to impose the Shah....)\n\n\n.