Just weeks before elections, specter of sectarian violence resurfaces in Iraq

Washington Post ^ | February 17, 2010 | Leila Fadel

[C19fan]

It was only one killing, but it unleashed the demons of a bitter and perhaps unfinished past. The victim was a Sunni man in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, in northwest Baghdad. The death and the aftermath were reminiscent of the prelude to the sectarian war, which began in late 2005 with a smattering of killings and threats and culminated with 100 bodies a day being dumped in the streets of the capital. With the imminent departure of American forces and fierce competition for power ahead of general elections on March 7, many here say sectarian strife is reigniting.

[C19fan]

Since Biden was taking the credit for the success we could pin him when Iraw blows up. Is this really surprising? Bush II's Wilsonian folly to attempt to convert that cesspit into some Western democracy was doomed to failure.

[widdle_wabbit]

With proper frownup oversight and direction, it could be so.