in control now

You cannot impose a democracy on a people who are not ready for it. The right wing wackos will point to the numbers that voted in the election and the left wing wackos will counter that the result of the election doesn't appear to be a very stable democracy does it? The Shiites are in control now and while they might not all not hate all the Sunnis they don't all not hate all of them enough to share power or the revenues from oil sales with any of them. This will not change. Sunnis made a mistake when they were deposed a few years back and did not participate in the new government. The Shiites will milk this mistake for as long as possible. Iraqs Sunni neighbours will continue to support the Sunnis inside Iraq in the hope that they too can get a share of the oil revenues and perhaps 79 heavenly virgins. Who can blame them? People will sell a lot of guns. Buildings, roads and bridges will be blown up and require rebuilding. The US will or will not spend another three billion dollars a week on one last push. It makes no difference. After bush pushes his last the people of the region will continue fighting. This will very likely come to involve Iraqs neighbours in a more serious fashion and the violence will escalate as per "the secret Republican agenda". This is a battle of civilizations and will continue for a long time as the Republicans sometimes tell us with a wry smile. Within a few years all the Sunnis in Iraq will be dead and /or the idea of instituting a democracy will be abandoned and Exxon and BP will install a dictatorial system of government. This will not be the end because in reality there are no beginings and no endings. There is just a really long section in between.