An Iraq Civil war offers US choice: pull out or take sides: analysts

[ProSense]

An Iraq Civil war offers US choice: pull out or take sides: analysts

by Jim Mannion
Fri Aug 4, 4:34 AM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Warnings by top US generals of a growing threat of civil war in Iraq are confronting US policymakers with somber questions about the future of a costly three year old mission to stabilize the country.

Analyst said civil war would force the United States to choose between withdrawing its troops or take sides in what could become a wider regional conflict.

US officials insist the violence between Shiites and Sunnis is still confined mainly to Baghdad and is not yet "a classic civil war."

But the sectarian violence is "as bad as I've seen it, in Baghdad in particular," and civil war is a possibility, the top US general in the Middle East, General John Abizaid, warned Congress Thursday.

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[Oversea Visitor]

1. Who is this dumbass

Take side.
Gee do they not learn from Vietnam.

When husband and wife has a fight and you take a side as outsider
you get truly fuck when they make up.

[Ghost Dog]

2. Heh, well said OV.

You looking forward to a fully-withdrawn, isolationist USA?

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Hey hello

Ghost Dog
How is things with you?
Nah just looking forward to Nov
And hopeful everything stop being so crazy.

[ProSense]

3. Shia (Hezbollah supporters), Sunni (insurgents) or

withdrawal?

100,000 March Against U.S. and Israel in Baghdad

Time to withdraw, the rest is spin!