Civil War in Iraq?

It's actually probably best they end up in a civil war. These guys just got out of a totalarian government, and you expect them to up and move to democracy just like that? It seems the current administration is at least hinting at the efforts in Iraq akin to the American Revoultion, but there are key differences.

1) Americans wanted to change (see Acro-nym's post)
2) Americans didn't have a ton of factions who wanted to kill each other
3) Americans weren't Muslim

On point #3, what I mean is, does the Muslim religion even leave a chance for democracy? If someone disagrees with you religiously, he is an infidel and must be killed. Democracy is more or less based around the principles of freedom isn't it? Correct me if Im wrong, but I figure the religion the majority of Iraqi's hold to is just in-hospitable to a democratic system.

Even if they could pull a democratic system, even America had to go through a civil war eventually. If anything, a civil war will end up causing the various factions to see the mess they've gotten themselves into, and will only strengthen them and foster a new enviorment for a democratic system.

Or neighboring countrys could take advantage of it and attack. That's even more likely.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

I think there are moderate Muslims out there. The US probably has a couple million of them and you don't see reporters getting kidnapped from the Fox News headquaters.

Sure there are, but the extremists seem to be getting in the way alot as of late.

I just don't see democracy happening over there untill the Iraqi's get up and start honestly trying to deal with the crap going on over there themselves. The Iraqi militia is a nice first step, but untill just about every Iraqi is actively doing something, such as tipping off American and Iraqi forces to insurgents and such, I feel were just stagnating the inevitable by staying over there crying, "Democracy, DO YOU USE IT" to the Iraqis.

There's nowhere I can't reach.