Iraq: Bombings Pushing Nation to Brink of Civil War

IRAQ is slipping into all-out civil war, a Shia leader declared yesterday, as a devastating onslaught of suicide bombers slaughtered more than 150 people, most of them Shias, around the capital at the weekend.

“What is truly happening, and what shall happen, is clear: a war against the Shias,” Sheikh Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, a prominent Shia cleric and MP, told the Iraqi parliament.

TheStateOf…Iraq. I’m starting to think the Bush Administration flat out doesn’t care what’s going on in Iraq. US companies are focusing on building oil infrastructure, but nothing is being done to quell the exploding violence. How much more can the Iraqis take?