On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:40:31 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
Ignoramus7591 quickly quoth:

On 2007-10-03, Dave Hinz wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:53:04 GMT, Richard The Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

It's pretty obvious that the two sects are killing each other because
they both think the other side is collaborating with the invaders, which
is US.

It's pretty obvious to people who look back further than this decade,
that those two sects have been killing each other for centuries before
the US existed.


I have not looked into this very deeply, but the stuff that I saw
indicated that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq were not fighting each other
-- in major ways -- until later part of the 20th century. I will
appreciate some facts on this matter.

I haven't read it, but I wonder if this would help:
http://www.amazon.com/Middle-East-Be.../dp/0684832801

According to this, it started in 656 A.D.
http://hnn.us/articles/934.html

But remember that there are 3 active sects in Iraq: Kurds, Sunnis, and
Shiites. Don't forget the Kurds. sigh

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal