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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Askari_Mosque_bombing
I find this to be the biggest blow the insurgents have done. This is particularly low, even for the insurgents. I mean, bombing a normal mosque it evil enough, but bombing one of the most holy places in Shiite religion, is just despicable. I find that some of the Islam reaction to be quite noble, defending Sunni mosques from Shiites trying to avenge the mosque.
Of course, Iran, being the rational little country it is, deduced that it is obviously the work of the USA, Israel, and other Zionists. How couldn't we have seen it before?
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That is horrible.... Why would someone do that anyway? Where does it take them in life?... That's what I always ask myself about murderers/suicide bombers, the murderers killed someone at random, or just someone they have had a relationship with (Not always dating/marrying, I mean knew eachother too) then get thrown in jail/death row. What's the point if you know you're going to die when you do it. Like with 9/11 the suicide bombers who did that. "It was for there country" How does that help? Revenge takes you no where in life...

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I think this should show the Iraqi people that the insurgents don't give a *BLEEEOOOW* (Blue Las-alert noise) about them, that they just wanna cause enough chaos to take over and subject their own totalitarian rule over them. I still think it's rediculous that some people think that pulling all US forces out of Iraq immediately will improve the situation, or that terrorists will leave us alone. It's the faultiest logic I've ever seen. If a junkyard dog is biting your leg, what do you do? Leave it be, or whack it upside the head with a lead pipe? If you whack it once, and it comes back to bite some more, then what? You whack it again! Letting terrorists be only makes them bolder. It shows them that we're weak, that we lack the determination to finish the job, and it shows them that they've won.

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And of course, people are now saying that all this is an indictation of civil war to come. But with all the effort that is being made to prevent a civil war in Iraq...... I wonder, should it just be allowed to run its own course?

When new countries were forged in the past, a civil war followed in a lot of cases. Usually, when that is through, continued peace follows - the nation learns for itself how to deal with the political and social diversity that once split it apart, and that it's best to deal with it peacefully.

There's nothing now to stop Iraq's spates of localised violence carrying on for years, and Al-Askari is just one instance of many to come. So perhaps Iraq needs a civil war to bring all those old grievences to a head. Both scenerios will involve killing, yes - but civil war may very well involve less death than the situation as it stands, and would take much less time to resolve itself.

It's a horrible thing to think, but, perhaps you're right. Let them "get it out of their systems" and move on.
It makes sense.

I was kind of afraid that there would be a civil war when the government in Iraq collapsed. Granted, Saddam was a jerk, to put it mildly, but the Iraqi people lived in fear of him. Since they feared him more than they feared each other, he kept an uneasy peace. I know that's a gross oversimplification, but it works.

I wish there was some sort of way that peace could be achieved in Iraq without more people dying, but, unfortunately, the Sunni's don't seem to want to make any kind of concessions, and, like WHF said, it seems like civil war is a natural thing in the evolution of a nation. Sad, but probably true.

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Positive take on the bombing:

CBS News article

Things can work out for the best in Iraq.

Kinda reminds me of 9/11. Sometimes it takes an act of extreme violence and brutality to galvanize a nation.

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