Monday, May 02, 2005

Iraq Civil War

A Chinese proverb instructs that the beginning of wisdom starts by calling things by their proper name.

America is in the middle of a civil war of it's own making. The Shiites are exploiting the naive Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz policy of introducing democracy into the Middle East as a battering ram to avenge their 1,400 year religious struggle with the Sunnis. In 656 A.D. Mohammods grandson Hussein was beheaded by Sunnis who set up another succesion line of Islam. This change in power will have far reaching effects. In the Middle East 18 of 21 countries are dominated by Sunni governments. With restive Shiites in those countries witnessing the Iraqi change in favor of the Shiites more upheaval may soon follow.

America has become a cat's paw for Shiite political gains. Any government they will control will certainly be theocratic and anti- Sunni. No matter who wins the civil war which won't end anytime soon, America will be kicked out and a theocratic government will be set up.

America will have nothing to show for it's loss of lives and the hundreds of billions it has and will spend.

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