Reply #5: Perhaps they won't have a choice on when to bail..... [View All]

let us not forget the Shia. From the article:

<snip> The most serious signs of trouble for the administration last week were probably in Iraq itself, especially in the Shi'ite-dominated southern part of the country which, until now, has been relatively quiet compared to the central Sunni triangle region where insurgents have caused the vast majority of US casualties since May 1.

Three of the four soldiers killed Friday were involved in a shootout with unknown assailants in the holy Shi'ite city of Karbala. It was by far the worst incident in a series over the past month that reportedly involves a major power struggle between at least two key armed Shi'ite factions.

Recently. two other US soldiers were killed in what the CPA described as an ambush in Sadr City, a Shi'ite-dominated part of Baghdad in which the factional struggle has also increased.

That US troops might now be targeted by one of the factions - associated most closely with Muqtada al-Sadr, who has called for the establishment of an independent government - is particularly disturbing to Iraq specialists in Washington.

...Do you think these "Iraq specialists in Washington" have EVER been in contact with the neocons in thw WH?