Dianavan--


"Bombs in the Shia regions far outweigh" the bombs in the Sunni regions. But we all know why. Al-Qaeda is at least nominally Sunni. So any bombing by al-Qaeda will likely be in a Shiite area--and be counted as a Sunni attack.

But that does not mean that al-Qaeda bombings are endorsed by most Sunnis--any more than they endorsed Saddam's atrocities.

So your map is basically meaningless.

The fact remains that it's virtually always minority rights that need attention--the majority can and will look after its own interests--unless you have a dictator of the minority party---which you no longer have in Iraq.

And, as I've mentioned before, I'm not exactly Mr. Bush's top fan--but he neither wants a Sunni state nor a Shiite state in Iraq. All he wants at this point is a functioning state---so he can declare victory again, this time more believably--and his Iraq adventure won't be so obviously the total disaster that it is.

As I've said before, he's drowning in the river of denial.