This source is The University of Texas, therefore, there should not be any divisiveness regarding it's accuracy. A country this definely divided is so because of profound cultural differences. To ask them to find a way toward a "Unity Government" is asking for nothing more than a Civil War when one realizes the level of mistrust bred during the years Saddam Hussein ruled and tried to kill off the Shi'ites by drying up the wetlands. Will these ethnicities ever trust each other enough? Will a democracy in Iraq whereby the minority obstains from participation ever be equitable and just? I don't see how.

The wide distribution of the weapons imported by the USA for use by the Iraqi National Military but diverted to the militias screams at me. The Shi'ite aren't interested in settling a peace among the ethnicities. They are however interested in securing their hamlets and towns away from occupiers with different intentions than they have.

Our troops will never be in the presence of 'friendly' people cooperating willingly in a democracy of equity. We are causing more of the problem then we are solving. We are arming an authority the Shi'ites approve of outside the authority of the Bush Recognized Government FOR Iraq. As a result the USA military have created the sectarian violence they state they are there to stop and have become the killers of the people that have come to protect themselves.