Boy, did I goof. I need a bigger flag.

Our president is determined to keep and protect Bagdad for the Sunni, no matter the cost in treasure and lives. The Shiites are armed and ready, at long last, to take on the Sunni. For years and years the Sunni have thought of themselves as the warrior class, and always considered the Shiites as lay-down, self-flaggellating, pussy zelots. Now that the Shiites are armed and being led by al-Sader, a religous zelot seething with hatred, promising revenge; the Sunni are slowly coming to the realization they are looking straight into the abyss. The prayer rug hugging, five times a day praying, pussy zelots are looking for some payback for all the years Saddam terrorized them. However, Bush cannot afford for the Sunni to loose, and the Saudis will not allow it, even if it means Saudi Arabia must attack to protect their Sunni brothers. When the Saudis attack, the Iranians will rush to protect the Shiites, ...and so on..and so on,...ect. until the Son of Man returns

. If the Shiites were to induldge a full measure of revenge, there would be a genocide the likes of which has not been seen of late; well, not since Pol Pot in Cambodia or the tribal killings in Rwanda. (And we thought rampant blood-lust ended with the end of the Twentieth Century.)

Anyone who could leave Iraq -- has left. America has no choice -- America must stay.
What I don't understand is why did Bush not see this? It was very predictable. One doesn't need a crystal ball to know civil war would be the outcome of Suddam being taken out of the picture. He was the strong man who kept the Shiites down on the farm. Churchill, seventy years ago was smart enough to know arbitrary lines drawn in the sands of Mesopotamia do not states make. He called the Mideast group of states, "tribes with flags."
If one draws borders following tribal and religious lines, the Shiites new "tribal country" runs from Iran through Iraq to Syria -- a Mideast superpower of Shi'a religious zealotry. The only ones to stop them were Sunni thugs, and we knee-capped the Sunni.