Man. I was just reading about some crazy shit goin down in Iraq and, although it's late and I'm somewhat drunk, I thought I'd comment. It looks as if the sectarian violence in Iraq is intensifying. What was recently Sunnis fighting Shias is now worsening to Shias fighting Shias. Iraq appears to be falling into complete anarchy. While the Mahdi Army and al-Sadr Brigade were scary enough, the fact that they appear to be becoming too main stream for the radicals is very frightening. These groups, which were the extreme a year ago, are now being left behind by those who wish to take the conflict to the next level. These new groups appear to have no desire to work with the federal government at all. While I personnally think the government is a pawn of the States, to a large extent, it is still the only major centralized Iraqi institution. This new development will only lead to further anarchy and violence.