Civil War

Is Iraq headed for civil war? and what should we do about it?

These are two questions on many people's minds right now. After the Sunni's blew up a Shiite mosque that was built more than a thousand years ago, warfare broke out as the Shiite's retaliated. Worse case scenario is that all of the Middle East takes sides with either the Shiites or the Sunni's and the whole region breaks out into chaos. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are two of the countries predicted to invade. The Shiites were under the Sunni leader Saddam Hussein for so long and when the Americans took Saddam out of power, the Shiites were the majority and had the most power over everything. The Sunni's felt threatened and struck back by blowing up the mosque. When George W. Bush Sr. invaded Iraq in Persian Gulf War I he made sure he didn't take Baghdad because he knew the whole region would most likely erupt into civil war. American citizens have long been calling for the removal of our troops from Iraq. Unfortunately it has fallen on deaf ears. Bush keeps saying that he cannot set a date on when the troops will be removed, and with this new violence, he may make them stay there longer to prevent more violence. However, our military commanders seem to believe that there's more going on over there than the violence. So, why aren't we hearing about it?? and why can't our troops come home?? Even though I believe Iraq was one of the worst mistakes this country has ever made, I don't see how we can just leave it a warring state. We may even be forced to break it up into three separate nations: the Sunni's, the Shiites, and the Kurds. My hope is that the top leaders of the Sunni's and the Shiites, and maybe even the Kurds get together and decide not to go to war, and to side by side peacefully.