Background on Iraq: A Shia-Shia Bloodbath Has Been Averted, but the Threat Remains

The U.S.-British invasion of Iraq in 2003 followed by the attempt to create a new political system there based on British parliamentarism has created a failed state and a recipe for chaos and civil strife. That reality was exposed once again on Aug. 1, as the two major Shia political blocks came clo