Attacks have soared in Iraq across the summer, and have brought with them death tolls rivaling the waning years of the US occupation. Despite all efforts to the contrary, sectarian civil war is back in Iraq, with political disputes and spillover from Syria combining into a deadly powder-keg.
The sectarian nature of the attacks is fueling more tensions between Iraq’s Sunni and Shi’ite communities, and is leading to calls from Shi’ite leaders to establish “popular committees,” armed Shi’ite-only militias that would fight as auxiliaries to the military.
During the worst of the last sectarian war, militias on both sides acted as de facto death squads, “cleansing” neighborhoods of the rival sect, and fueling yet more resentment on both sides.
Combining that with the Iraqi military could be an even bigger problem, since after the last election and a reneged-on power sharing deal there is already a sense among Iraq’s Sunnis that the government is biased against them, and shoring them up with Shi’ite militias would only strengthen that belief.
Thus far the sunnies terrorism supported by Saudis, Turkey and UAE are fighting the Iraqi nations, the terrorists from Syria entering Iraq terrorizing the Kurdish people and those who already in Iraq terrorizing Shi'ite's. Their kind of terrorists in Syria refuses to enter the peace negotiation in Geneva so as these terrorists in Iraq, so, what is left for Iraqi government and Iraqi people to do, but to arm themselves to fight these bandits all over the Iraq.
This was the politics implemented by Bush and duck Cheney regime when they divided the Iraqi nation, and is done in Libya, Syria and elsewhere. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, is the name of the game.
The author portrays the continuing and increasing terrorist violence in Iraq as something for which both Sunnis and Shiites are responsible, when in fact that is not the case. There was no terrorist violence in Iraq until after the US invasion and occupation in 2003; and from 2003-2006 all terrorist violence was committed against Shiites (and the government) by Sunni extremists groups affiliated with or inspired by Al Qaeda. Shiite religious leaders forbade retaliation by Shiites against Sunnis and were heeded until 2006, when a Sunni terrorist bombing of the most sacred Shiite shrine in Iraq finally touched off sectarian violence by Shiites against Sunnis; and from 2006-2008 there was essentially a sectarian civil war between Shiites and Sunnis. After 2008 the sectarian Shiite-Sunni warfare receded to the 2003-2006 situation, where almost all Shiite violence ceased but Sunni extremists continued their terrorist bombings against Shiites and the government — a situation which has continued to the present time, though drastically worsened since the Syrian conflict began and was transformed from a largely sectarian Syrian revolt into a Sunni extremist, Al Qaeda dominated effort to replace the sectarian government with an extremist Islamic state.
All these killing ar organized and impliment by Saudi Arabia and their terrorist cells SUPPORTED by the UNITED FASCIST STATES to tell Iraq that if you don't let us to have military bases, we will KILL you all, like what we did earlier in Iraq and all over the world.