Does the US want a regionwide war between Sunni's and Shiites?

[billbuckhead]

Sure looks like it.http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050921/ts_krwashbureau/_usiraq_ethnicstrife;_ylt=Av5y452SIfukyB5aOvBzkKys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-

Shiites fleeing Sunni dominated neighborhoods of Baghdad

By Nancy A. Youssef and Mohammed al Dulaimy, Knight Ridder Newspapers Wed Sep 21, 2:53 PM ET
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The ethnic cleansing of Baghdad neighborhoods is proceeding at an alarming and potentially destabilizing pace.

Some Shiite Muslim residents in predominantly Sunni Muslim Baghdad neighborhoods are fleeing their homes because they say the country's violence and sectarian tensions have reached their front doors, forcing them to move into more homogenous communities.

Government officials and academic experts agree that the virtual expulsion of some ethnic groups from mixed communities is troubling and threatens the nation's stability, which depends on a degree of ethnic harmony. Some worry the purges are setting the early stages of civil war, saying that homogenous neighborhoods could become future battlegrounds in the capital.
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[The Magistrate]

1. Probably Not, Sir

Certainly there is no benefit that could be gained to the United States by such a thing.

It is equally true that such a thing is a likely consequence of the foolishness that has constituted the current regime's policy. That there will be such a civil war in Iraq is a certainty; indeed, as these journalists observe, its opening stages are already evident.

[billbuckhead]

3. Divide and conquer

They think they can get on one of the sides and get the oil under control.

[radwriter0555]

2. Not really, but it serves the US purpose to pretend there is one in order

to maintain the occupation.

The US has used the Shi'ite and Sunni civil war propoganda tool for many years; first in part to demonize Saddam.