Absolutely, it's a lot more complicated than just Sunnis vs. Shias. You have fighting WITHIN Shias and Sunnis, plus al Qaeda stirring up trouble wherever they can, plus interference from Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. And what is to prevent the partitioned areas from going to war with each other, over resources and egged on by foreign interlopers? Partition is just an over-simplified "solution" that might sound good to lame-brains like Biden but it doesn't correspond to the reality.
So far I have only heard the general before plugs refer to how dangerous a job we have coming up with Iran.
We can ill afford to let them develop centrifuge after centrifuge,brag about it, and continue to interfere in Iraq killing our soldiers.
The day will come when we have to act.
I'll make it even simpler. No democrat can abide Pres Bush being right on this. Whatever they can say or do about Iraq to make it a failure they'll do. That's why they're moving the goal posts on this. That's why Ried said Iraq was already lost. They're trying to get the "failure" set in everyone's minds before Preteaus's report.
Everything is "Yes, but...."
It's all about who is in charge HERE. They want their full power back, and to sustain it in the Congress. Events are fast catching up on them. Americans don't like to lose. The DBM and the dems are the hopers and sustainers of losing in Iraq. Partitioning is an easy way to say, "See, Bush caused Iraq to break apart." Too bad for them Bush won't listen to their backstabbing crap.