Have you been wondering how it was going to turn out? The new democracy in Iraq, I mean. Well, the waiting is over; the beginning of the end is upon them. It’s going to get a lot worse, but I can tell you in general terms: Civil War. Oh yeah, it’s gonna get ugly, and it’s already out of all semblance of “control.” There’s gonna be hell to pay.

“Iraq’s Shi’ite- and Kurdish-led government, backed by the United States, faces a Sunni Arab revolt that has intensified ahead of an October 15 referendum on a new constitution.

Sunni Arabs, the dominant community under ousted leader Saddam Hussein, fear they will lose influence under the new charter and many have vowed to reject it.”

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