Iraq - Hey dude, where's my civil war? II

Earlier I posted about Ralph Peters report from Iraq where he had this to say:

Let me tell you what I saw anyway. Rolling with the "instant Infantry" gunners of the 1st Platoon of Bravo Battery, 4-320 Field Artillery, I saw children and teenagers in a Shia slum jumping up and down and cheering our troops as they drove by. Cheering our troops.

All day - and it was a long day - we drove through Shia and Sunni neighborhoods. Everywhere, the reception was warm. No violence. None.

And no hostility toward our troops. Iraqis went out of their way to tell us we were welcome.

Instead of a civil war, something very different happened because of the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra. The fanatic attempt to stir up Sunni-vs.-Shia strife, and the subsequent spate of violent attacks, caused popular support for the U.S. presence to spike upward.

Now, even the civil war urging BBC have to admit it's just not happening.

But, rather than allow the murders to divide the community, Falah and his neighbours decided to act.

They formed a special guard deliberately made up of both Shias and Sunnis and sealed their neighbourhood off from the outside world.

''And now all the killings have stopped,'' Falah told me, breaking into a huge grin. [...]

''Look, Shia and Sunni working together,'' Falah said proudly.

"And have you seen their badges?'' he asked.

Each of the guards had a piece of yellow card pinned to his chest.

''Our loyalty is to god and country,'' the card read. ''We don't belong to any party. We are the eyes for the people's safety.''

The young men believed they were helping their community stand up to outsiders trying to create divisions between them.

''Terrorists, they want to make a war between us," said Mohammed, a slender man in his early twenties with a rifle slung over his shoulder.

But we don't care who's Sunni or who's Shia. We are Iraqis and Muslims."

His friend Ali agreed: ''We all live together here. I'm Shia but my sister is married to a Sunni. It's normal."

Not only are they working together, they've banded together and declared war on Zarqawi.

All good news for Iraq and the rest of the world. Bad news for the Democrats, the Left and their mouthpiece, the lying liberal media.
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