oh yeah, around every corner

we can ALL see (though it seems most of the american public, well at least our congress and senate) choose to keep their heads in the sand, so to speak.
americans vs. iraqis
sunnis vs. shiites
now shiites vs. shiites

shite

yup,

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Between Iraqi Shiites, a Deepening Animosity
Basra Offensive Inflamed Long-Standing Rivalry, Redefining Nature of Conflict

By Sudarsan RaghavanWashington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD, April 6 -- As verses from the Koran floated from a loudspeaker, the Shiite militia commander's face glowered. Inside the cavernous funeral tent, a large portrait of his 16-year-old son, Mustafa, hung over the mourners. Abu Abdullah, who fought U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents for five years, never expected his son to die before him. Now, he said, his anger was directed at other Shiites.
An Iraqi soldier, he said, had shot Mustafa two days earlier as he approached a checkpoint in Sadr City, where Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army rule. Abu Abdullah blamed Sadr's Shiite rivals, who lead the Iraqi government.
"What do I feel inside me?" asked Abu Abdullah, dressed in black. "I want to do to them exactly what they did to my son, and even more."
In this volatile Shiite redoubt, animosity toward Prime Minister Nouri-al Maliki and his allies has deepened in the aftermath of Iraq's worst violence in months, threatening to escalate a conflict among Shiites that could further draw in U.S. troops. ..........

in our lifetime,

it will NEVER be safe in iraq. we stirred it up. we instigated this. we had NO right to invade them. i keep saying it and i'll do so in the future. i still don't understand how king george is not being made accountable for invading iraq. i don't. i don't understand how people still support the invasion. what they think. why they think we invaded iraq. saddam? no, he was never going to harm us. he harmed his own, but we harmed them MORE. hey who armed saddam in the FIRST PLACE (hint, the answer is the united states)

Violence increases and tensions rise among Iraqi Shiites
By Steve Lannen McClatchy Newspapers
BAGHDAD — A police raid Saturday on an extremist Shiite Muslim mosque thought to be the headquarters of an extremist cult capped a weekend of violence in southern Iraq, while elsewhere tensions between Iraq's Shiite-led government and renegade Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr continued to escalate.
Iraq's national security advisor said he was briefly taken hostage Saturday in a Baghdad mosque and implied that his captors were Sadr supporters. Mowaffak al Rubaie was released only after Iraq's interior minister, who oversees the police, intervened.
In an e-mail to McClatchy, Rubaie said that Sadr's followers "used the same tactics that they used before on Abdul Majid al Khoei." Sadrists were accused of fatally stabbing Khoei, a moderate young Shiite cleric who was considered a rival to Sadr, in 2003. A warrant for Sadr was issued in 2004, but it's never been executed, and he's denied any involvement.......