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February 27, 2006

The Little Civil War That Tried But Couldn't - Residents Returning To Streets In Baghdad (Updated)

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I know, I know, you're saying it's way too early to make any note out of a day's events, and you're right. And so it was also with the mosque bombing and the violent reactions that followed. However, again, contrary to the predictions, hopes and dreams of the "demagogues, appeasers, and the media", as the military predicted and we've previously noted, Iraq is not in a civil war, and more likely than not it will move forward over what will be looked back upon as another bump in the road to democracy.

Now, from the AP, Baghdad residents are returning to the streets as the violence begins to ebb.

BTW, we're no crystal ball gazers and have no special insight as to what was going to happen in Iraq following the mosque bombing, other than common sense and taking note of a different pattern of events than those hotly pursued and reported with unbated breath by the media. However, when General Wesley Clark said on national television that Iraq was not going to fall into a civil war, a man who for the life of him can't utter a word without it being in concert with his own political agenda, and who would dance in the streets and shout with glee to see the Bush administration embarassed or Iraq fall apart in an explosion of unrest - says there's no civil war going on, hey, anyone with can feel comfortable with predicting Iraq was not going to have a civil war.

As hard as Iran and the insurgents tried and as much as they wanted one, trust me - a civil war wasn't going to happen over a blown dome. The Iraqis have more sense than that, and they've already proven their metal by voting with their lives!

Update: Readers should also find our March 1 post interesting, "What's Really Going On In Iraq: Discerning With Common Sense And Real Facts":

What's really going on in Iraq? Gloom and doom, or roses and glee? Or maybe somewhere in between as one would expect in a fledgling democracy springing out of a region known for turmoil since and in many ways stuck - in the middle ages, with anger and violence stoked by incompetent and self-serving leaders and fire-breathing imams praying for theocracies?

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Related: The Sunnis get a clue - The Sunnis of Iraq have been living in denial. Many of them simply can't believe that they do not make up a majority of the country's population. Many others of them know that they don't, but believe that they can still dominate the country even after the Coalition has shattered the Ba'athist apparatus of oppression. The sectarian violence of the last few days, following the dispicable attack on the Shia's Golden Mosque, was ice water in their face. According to both the Associated Press and the New York Times, the Sunnis have woken up and are ready to come back to the table.

Posted by Richard at February 27, 2006 7:26 AM

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