Wasnt Saddam a Sunni? Holding power over the larger Shia population by force & terror?
I dont know if they can ever work together long enough to attack a common enemy. Instead it sounds like they are too busy fighting each other.
Yes, and lots of Sunnis held favored positions in the government, although there were a couple of high-ranking Shiites and one Christian as well. Saddam wasn't particularly religious.
Holding power over the larger Shia population by force & terror?
After the Shia attempted to overthrow the slimebag in 1991 and failed, yes, he and his thugs did take revenge in many ways.
Instead it sounds like they are too busy fighting each other.
There are certainly power struggles and Muqtada al Sadr's minions are defintely a HUGE problem, but the Sunnis and the Shiites aren't fighting each other as much as the media would have you believe.
However, things have been deteriorating here since March when Iraq held elections but up to now has failed to seat its government. That's where the squabbles are - not so much among the people.
Iraq has recently announced that it is now working on seating the government and al Qaeda has threatened to do everything it can to prevent that.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. *Sigh*