I smell civil war:

A wave of sectarian strife and recrimination swept Iraq Thursday after Wednesday’s bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra. The Interior Ministry said that more than 100 people have been killed in the violence.

Officials in Baghdad, struggling to restore order, expanded an existing curfew in an effort to get people off the streets after dark and canceled all leaves for Iraqi security forces.

The process of forming a new government also appeared to be in jeopardy, as some Sunni politicians, protesting what they said was a lack of protection for Sunni mosques attacked overnight, said they were pulling out of negotiations with Shiite parties.

That’s it. The war in Iraq has gotten to the point where everything that’s gone downhill is so obvious it had to be intentional. There’s sectarian violence not because our politicians didn’t somehow know that there would be, but because they wanted it that way. What we’ve thought all this time was the occupation going wrong was in fact the occupation going just how it was expected.

Anyone wanna bet that this spills over the border?

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