Insurgents detonated bombs inside one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, destroying its golden dome and triggering more than 90 reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. The president warned that extremists were pushing the country toward civil war.
With the gleaming dome of the 1,200-year-old Askariya shrine reduced to rubble, leaders on both sides called for calm and many Shiites lashed out at the United States as partly to blame.
But the string of back-and-forth attacks seemed to push Iraq closer to all-out civil war than at any point in the three years since the U.S.-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
It is like watching a car accident in slow motion. You know it is going to happen but you keep hoping that somebody will hit the brakes or turn the wheel before it is too late.
This civil war is going to be incredibly ugly. If I were to predict the outcome I would say that when the dust finally settles Iraq have ceased to exist. Instead we will have several smaller states with at least one directly connected to Iran.
This cannot help but make Osama Bin Laden a happy man.
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