We toppled Hussein, the only lunatic who was ruthless enough to keep these factions from murdering one another like they are now. This is the inevitable consequence that will continue until we leave and another savage dictator will become Saddam II (until we "liberate" the country from him, also).
5. No no, I'm not minimizing the profound anger at our presence over there.
But it is simply a fact that the Shia and Sunni tribes have hated one another for millennia. Saddam's ruthless police-state was what prevented them from killing one another.
I know that many of them see beyond the tribalistic bullshit and can get along. There are, however, the lunatics on both sides who are willing to do horrific things to one another and make life miserable for everyone else.
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