Civil war...whose responsible.

In looking at coverage of the war in Iraq which is undoubtedly turning into a Civil war certain questions must be asked. The main question is, who is responsible for this, and the most common answer is the United States. This is the simple answer, America got rid of Hussein so they must be responsible, I must disagree. I must say that although I am not a fan of the climate in Iraq or the way the conflict has been handled, the blood is not on our hands.

The blood and the blame lie squarely on the hands of the Iraqi people. Why you ask, simple, because of years of unchecked hatred among different sects of the same religion. The United States did not inspire this hate, it had always been there oppressed by the strong arm tactics of Sadaam Hussein. Once we liberated the people of Iraq they simply couldnt contain themselves. The animosity being displayed by the Iraqi people with the US is simply that the soldiers are getting in the way of their killing sprees. Wether it be Sunni insurgents or the responding Shiite deat squads we did not create either side. The narrow minded and highly religious ideology of the middle east did. These are groups that have always been in conflict and that cannot behave like human beings. Killing people in markets with bombs for being Shiites and torturing with drills for being Sunni is no human act, but the act of something much less.

This is not to say that the Iraqi people are all like this, but as in any case, the small amount who are, are ruining the country for the rest. The violence simply spurs more violence and in such a religiously divided country the United States ample amounts of firepower cannot counter the street level intelligence and ability to blend in that the trouble makers have. This is not our civil war, it is the Iraqi peoples. We accomplished the objective, remove the former regime, replace with deomocratic government. What the Iraqi people choose to do with said government is their perogative, not ours.

Until the government of Iraq(predominantly Shiite) decides to rein in the death squads and put teeth into its justice system there will be no end. Conversely there is no reason that we should embroil ourselves in a countrys civil war, the fight on terror should and will continue, but the policing of a nation should not. The war on terror is not fought by the regular army, but special forces and police services until the US recognizes the nature of this conflict which more closely resembles police actions scatteresd throughout the world rather than the battlefields of old, there will be no progress. All the fancy tanks and aircraft carriers we have cant defeat the cell of terrorist...only good intelligence and precision strikes can.