Word: sectarianism
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Cheney: There's no question what there is sectarian violence now, but remember how we got to sectarian violence: al Qaeda. That was their strategy to launch attacks against the Shi'as, to kill Shi'as until they could generate some kind of a response. And there's no question but what there's sectarian Shi'as-on-Sunni violence today. But just because it's tough doesn't mean it's not worth doing...
...TIME: Isn't what's happening in Iraq, though, not about al Qaeda principally, but about sectarian war and civil war, the potential for civil war? Aren't we on the verge in Iraq of occupying a country that's being torn apart in a civil dispute, a civil...
...Such a conclusion certainly jibes with the facts on the ground: Iraq has become a charnel house with a current average of around 100 Iraqis killed every day in rampant sectarian bloodletting, while the U.S. casualty count continues to climb at a steady clip - October 2006 is currently on track to be the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion of Iraq. The U.S. has long recognized that the insurgency can't be eliminated by military means; instead it hoped that it could be defanged by a national reconciliation process pursued by the elected government, which would coax...
...been in Iraq as long as I have - over three and a half years - the tragedies that beset this country can either become mere statistics, or they can become personal. I've only been back in Baghdad six hours, and already the week's most horrific story - the sectarian carnage that has killed nearly 100 people in the town of Balad - has taken on a personal dimension...
...corrupt unit of the police force looks good and proactive and decisive. He's making the right noises. The question is, how far can he really go? His main political support comes from the Sadr movement, which is connected to the militia that is doing a lot of the sectarian killing and infiltrating the police. He can only crack down on this so far before he crosses a line and loses his political backing. Dissolving a police could be window dressing. It looks good. But there's a lot more to clean...