[MikeA]

"The blood letting begins. A lot more will need to flow before Iraq will be stable again."

Actually, this is old news. I heard about these revenge killings in an LA Times piece probably 16 months ago. It actually sounded a lot worse back then. Yahoo could only come up with 3 examples. It sounded a lot more widespread in the Times piece over a year ago. This is just an attempt by Yahoo to discredit the elections.

[taxcontrol]

Even so, not enough of the "bad" people have been killed. Yes, the coalition has taken out several thousand. But there will be more to come.

Most likely the smart ones, the high profile ones, have already fled the country. Otherwise, as time goes on, and when no one is looking.......

It has followed every major shift of power - especially when abusive dictatorships fall. There were revenge killings of Nazi party members well into the 50's.

I suspect that these killings will continue for some time. It is very difficult to forgive someone for raping your wife and daughters and killing your son.