Over the past year, a debate between Liberals and Conservatives has gone on as to whether Iraq is currently in a Civil War.
According to today's Washington Post (http://tinyurl.com/...), the description is beyond horrible. Calling it a Civil War is no longer accurate. We are looking at Ethnic Cleansing and could soon see Genocide.
According to the article, 1.6 million Iraqis have fled the country. There are also descriptions of Sunnis being told at the point of a gun to leave Majority-Shia Areas and vice versa, even where the minority groups used to be significant minorities and intermarriages were common.
When houses are burned down with the residents still inside, that is not war. War has traditions, and that is not one of them. When neighborhoods which used to have some diversity lose that diversity, it is Ethnic Cleansing.
Now there is talk in Washington that we may favor the Shias over the Sunnis to set up our disengagement (http://tinyurl.com/...). This is planned Genocide. I don't see how such a strategy could have any other possible outcome.
The US Civil War was horrible, but what is going on in Iraq now is worse. Comparisons with Cambodia and Rwanda will soon be appropriate.
The Republican Party has brought Ethnic Cleansing to Iraq. The Republican Party is making plans for Genocide. Speak the truth.