Originally Posted By ecdc So says the British ambassador to Iraq. The U.S. general in charge wasn't quite as sure it would but said it was a definite possibility. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/03/iraq.hearing/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI CS/08/03/iraq.hearing/index.html</a>
Originally Posted By gadzuux How will we know when iraq is actually "in" a civil war, as opposed to now where hundreds of people are being killed EVERY DAY - and have been for months now?
Originally Posted By woody In the article...>>"I believe that the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular. And that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war," he testified at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.<< Not to pore water over the possibility, it is quite serious in Baghdad. It's a Baghdad civil war and I predict if it happens, it will be more low level terrorism and NOT real civil war.
Originally Posted By jonvn Really, it already is a civil war. It will just end up to be them killing each other until they break up like Czechloslavakia did.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Really, it already is a civil war. It will just end up to be them killing each other until they break up like Czechloslavakia did. < the major difference being that even after a breakup there will likely be continued warfare - it won;t end there.....I don't see many headlines of people from bratislava blowing up buses and setting or car bombs in Prague
Originally Posted By jonvn That's the mideast. These people have been fighting and killing each other over NOTHING for centuries. It was utter insanity for us to go in there and think we'd be able to fix things up with a Sousa march and tap dancing and everyone would start loving each other. If the Arabs didn't have the Jews to go after, I think Iraq shows they'd be going after each other instead.
