CTRLALTDEL
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Al Qaeda is a minor irritant in Iraq whose job is to keep stirring the pot. The real fight is between sunnis and shiites. The real fight is a civil war that saw 34K Iraqi civilians killed last year alone.
If America suffered 260 THOUSAND dead civilians** last year due to sectarian violence, who wouldn't call THAT a civil war?
And why are we in the middle of a civil war where both sides consider us intruding enemies?
**(do the math: 34K dead in a population of 26M extrapolated to a US population of 301M)
True. Al Qaida is just taking advantage of the Sunni/Shiite hatred. And I'm sure they are the ones attacking one side in hoping the other would retaliate in a deadly manner. DIVIDE AND CONQUER.