Nope, it ain't over yet. It won't even be over when the last American soldier leaves Iraq, I figure. There'll probably be more fighting between Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds, etc, for some time after that. And none of it needed to happen at all.

But there's oil there. Lots of it. Oil is worth far more than a thousand American lives (or 10,000 Iraqui lives) to the planners of this war.