And as far as this upcoming election thing goes, it looks like the Bushies have managed to start a holy war between the Shi-ites and the Sunnis. That's what this whole insurgency thing is about. The Shi-ites are in the majority, and the Sunnis might well have cause to be apprehensive about the outcome of any "democratic" election in Iraq. No wonder their trying to stop it.

Old Middle East hands could (and did) predict something like this, but the Bush Administration, with its hubris and abyssmal ignorance, insisted on blundered right on in.

Don Firth