Reply #2: It's always been multi-faceted [View All]

[sandnsea]

The attacks have always been a combination of anti-US insurgency, foreign terrorists, and Sunni-Shiite tensions. There's also always been the more militant Sadr militia who wasn't always in agreement with more moderate Shiites who have been working towards a cooperative society. It has been more like every fringe group in the US going militant than any national coordinated plan. Civil war is when it becomes coordinated on a larger scale which is what some continue to deny is now happening, which doesn't mean the other attacks aren't still happening too.