Civil War in Iraq Intensifies

The Iraqi people have the most capable military force (US armed forces) on the planet there to try to maintain the peace. What else can we do? If certain people are going to rise up and start discriminately shooting each other over religious ideas they will eventually face their OWN evil and supreme justice.

Freedom of religion is something we do hold dear... Eventually these religious fanatics will get tired of killing off their own population and succumb to the inevitable... (which is) democracy... and a reasonably civil society...

It is not that we are forcing democracy on another country they are forcing their ideologies on each other from within. They cannot even tolerate each other let alone the US presence. The ending result will be a free society and the aggressors will eventually fall one by one... The US presence is not one of aggression but of mediation.

The only force we are aggressive about is the terrorist force... With any religious war we are a mediator and a deterrent to civil war.

One thing a civil war might do is pull out the most aggressive of the forces they will all have their little battle in the desert and the "radical" Sunni and the "radical" Shiite will all kill each other in the desert (and take some innocent civilians with them and a few US soldiers) and this war will finally be over and the rest of the Iraqis will finally be able to live in peace...

I wonder what proportion of Iraqis hate their fellow Iraqis to the death because they have another form of of Islam that they practice? Civil war is up to the Iraqi people and their own ability to be civilized... If they cannot be civilized then so be it... Such is the price of silly human pride and prejudice.

My prayers are with the coalition forces who are risking their life for the liberty of others and the stability of the free world. My prayers are also with the innocent Iraqis who do want to live in peace with their neighbor but have been visited in their neighborhoods by murderous radical Islamic extremists...

Allowing masked, armed men to roam the streets and countryside is a recipe for disaster.