The Iraq Civil War

October 16, 2006

In the past two months, military commanders have moved U.S. troops to Baghdad to stop sectarian violence and death squads.  Their strategy is to confront violent insurgents with military might. The result has been many more Iraqis killed and unfortunately many more Americans too. 

The result has also been more death outside the Iraqi capital with sectarian violence increasing and spreading.  Bush and his allies might see this as “success” because they think the violence is merely the last gasps of insurgency in the throws of failure. Or it is most likely a signal for more violence, a step up in the civil war the insurgents have been fighting all along.

Bush refuses to consider this despite the blood and horror.

Violence is intensifying because Iraq is in a civil war. Many Iraqis think they can control portions of the country and are fighting to do so while others believe they can kill Iraqi government officials so the U.S. supported “Iraqi Democracy” will fail. Their bloody efforts will help sway many Iraqis to join them because there is much to lose and to gain. People will have to choose sides The line between them and us will be more apparent with continued and more violent civil war with our solders in the middle.

Bush refuses to accept this.

This year, Bush said if Iraq slipped into civil war, he would pull our troops out. Then later he said the escalating violence did not indicate a civil war as he defined it. We can see where this I going. Bush’s ever changing definition of civil war will get thousands more of our soldiers killed or wounded.

This is absolutely unacceptable.

Bush is responsible for the Iraq Civil War as are his Congressional supporters. When will he and they be held to account for this atrocity?