Iraq Civil War
Which side will the United States be on?
by Lynn Wilkerson

Dec. 12: Iran which is mostly Shia, is the main financial supporter of the Hezbollah. “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered.” Iran under Ahmadinejad is continuing to pursue nuclear weapons and no one in their right mind thinks he wants them just for self defense. On the other hand there is the Sunni Bath party in Iraq which elected Saddam Hussein as their leader. Al qaeda are mostly Sunnis from Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates. And move freely in Sunni communities. Although Al qaeda is a frightening name to Americans at this time, it is of much less interest to the people of the middle east. “Saudi Arabia would respond to an American withdrawal from Iraq by funding and arming Sunni insurgents to prevent them being massacred by Shia militias, the kingdom has told the White House.” It was recently reported that Saddam’s generals reported that Saddam was arming the Sunni civilians just before the war not to just fight the invading American army but to over come and protect the party lines from the Shia’s that would surly rise up after the conflict. In a Iraq civil war I would of bet on the Sunnis because they had political and military experience, even though they are out numbered. But Iran is supporting the Shia and al-Sadr with arms. “The Iraq Study Group's grim report embraces the most worrisome estimates about Muqtada al-Sadr's private army: He has up to 60,000 fighters, and his followers are planted throughout the security forces protecting the Health Ministry and other Iraqi government institutions.” It should be evident by now and was well understood by Iraq academia that the Sunnis and Shias would now compromise in a Democracy. If the conflict continues to worsen, which everyone believes it will. I believe the best move we could make is to give Saddam back his country, rearm and rebuild the Sunni army under Saddam and with the support of the Saudis subdue the Shia militias and balance the power in the middle east. The worst case scenario would be if the Shia won Iraq. With a power base in Iran the world, especially the west, would be in a world of hurt. Which side would you be on?

Dec 19, 2006 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army has replaced al Qaeda in Iraq as "the most dangerous accelerant" of the sectarian violence plaguing Iraq for nearly a year, according to a Pentagon report. Attacks by Iraqi insurgents and sectarian militias jumped 22 percent from mid-August to mid-November, and Iraqi civilians suffered the bulk of casualties, according to the quarterly report released on Monday.

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