can we believe this kind of account ? remember the Baghdad school invasion of several months ago? The fact that Iraqi "stringers" are doing a lot of the eye-witness reporting, etc. If you need me to,and haven't seen the rather prominent threads on these themes, I can look them up.
"Rumors of yesterday's atrocities included one report of six Sunni men who emerged from services at a Baghdad mosque and were doused with kerosene and burned alive. But two Baghdad imams, in an interview, denied that the incident took place."
As I said, the issue at hand is dealing with a perceived incipient, and perhaps now not so incipient, civil war. I suspect a major change of course may well be near at hand, probably towards some de facto quasi partition. If it happens, it will happen rather quickly, if the Iraqi forces start dissolving de jure into sectarian factions.
I hope it does happen, I wish it does not happen, and if it does happen, it will be a tragedy. Bush's long pass towards remaking the middle east for the better will be recorded by history has an interception.