Gates of Hell Are Open-CIVIL WAR In Iraq Is Imminent (The Australian)

[kpete]

Gates of hell are open
The threat of a large-scale civil war in Iraq is imminent, reports Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov
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February 25, 2006
IN a land of daily bloodshed and bombings, it took another explosion this week to hammer home what many in Iraq and among its Arab neighbours have already accepted: a civil war is already being fought in the nation the US liberated.

It was an audacious attack even by the brutal standards of the new Iraq. When the giant dome of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, the holiest Shia shrine in the country, fell just before 7am on Wednesday, the inter-Islamic battles of the past 12 months reached a new nadir.

The toppling of a sacred site urged into the open the Shia fighters who had previously battled the Sunni uprising in the back lanes of towns and villages.

The Shias now have a lightning rod to make their rebellion public. The gates of hell, slightly ajar for a year, have been flung wide open.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18261816%255E2703,00.html

[MelissaB]

1. snip

"I do not think that bombing is either an attempt by the Sunnis and Shiites," he says. "It is from other infiltrators who want to make sectarian strife. Those who had bombed Ali Hadi Mosque and those who bombed Sunni mosques are agents for Mossad in the first place, and for the Americans in the second place. The US is the largest beneficiary from the current situation. A civil war delights the Americans. They would be happy viewers."

Try telling that to the army generals. An entrenched civil war is precisely what its military planners wanted to avoid. If, as expected, ethnic cleansing takes further hold, it will be very difficult for the 160,000 troops to stick to the mooted wind-back later this year.

Capitol Hill legislators face elections in November and some have already publicly said a protracted campaign is an increasingly difficult sell to voters.

[atreides1]

4. The Military planners didn't want it

But look at the facts as long as Iraq remains unstable, BushCo and PNAC get what they want, a reason to remain.

BushCo doesn't give a rats patoot about the troops that will be killed in the crossfire of this civil war, and while the commanders on the ground aren't too happy about this, I'll bet $20 that
the JCS were hoping that this would happen.

There was never any intention of pulling out the troops by this administration, in my opinion. It was all just to quell the masses back here in the states, and it made for good PR.

[genie_weenie]

7. I have to agree with you

it pretty much looks like the troops out by the end of the year talk is just to qwell discontent at home, fuck they've been saying for three years I guess BushCo figures they can continue to "say" troops will leave and people will believe it...

[RazzleDazzle]

5. Yeah, well, the Military doesn't run foreign policy or the CIA, do they?

Or Mossad, for that matter.

Curious indeed what discussion Fox News had today:

FAUX News: All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x510889
Link: http://mediamatters.org/items/200602240003

No matter WHAT they "decided" in their duscssion, even broaching the subject in that way softens up the listening public (Bush's base, in Fox's case) to think differently about it.

[Burried News]

2. The headline the New York Times couldn't use? We have to go

to Australia to get the news?

Nothing to see here folks - just Bushevik censorship and intimidation at work.

[tabasco]

3. Vice President Fudd says the civil war is in its last throes.

So no need to worry.

[Leopolds Ghost]

6. In its wast floes, you mean?

"We're hunting iswamists, tewwowists and insoigents!"