I really APPRECIATE the answers to my question about Iraq but wanted to ask a couple of people who answered...

Question

is there ANY CHANCE of the Shiites and Sunnis getting along with each other and co existing peacefully?

Well I think I am understanding now as I watch tv......there are too many groups to keep the violence going........so I guess my question doesn't matter. I just hate all the killing.....no matter who they are.

Answer 1

I believe that it is probably too late for this in Iraq now. The killing has already reached the point of no return.
We must remember that the hostilities between Sunnis and Shiites run long and deep. The US invasion did not cause it. All we did was allow these hostilities to come to the surface after decades of the Shiites being brutally put down by the Sunni minority.
The other thing is that each sect is receiving outside help.
The Sunnis are not only being supported by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-Arab states, but are receiving many Arab fighters, sympathetic to Al-Qaida, who go to Iraq not only to fight the Americans, but to kill "deviant" Shiites.
The Shiites, on the other hand, receive backing from Iran, which has traditionally been the Shiite bastion in the region.
Up and until the point Iraqis get sick and tired of killing each other, they will continue to do so. I do not see a light at the end of any tunnel here.
An increase i US troops might curb some of the violence, but it will not heal any sectarian wounds.

Answer 2

Before the invasion there was relative peace between them.
I say relative, because it wasnt completely perfect, but NOWHERE CLOSE to what it is like now!
Also, what hasnt been mentioned is that the Christian Iraqis who lived a peaceful life under Saddam (his deputy Tariq Aziz was Catholic!) are now being persecuted also and many have had to flee the country.
I agree. The number of dead now is shocking.

Answer 3

For the most part they were getting along to some degree under saddams rule. We have probably made the problem in Iraq worse and all just so we can have a base to launch an attack against the mid east countrys we dont agree with...

Answer 4

Why not?
Until living human kind understand that we are living human kind and not people of different races of racism in planet of apes.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors was created after the Liberation of Freedom back in world war two.
After the Liberation of Freedom living human kind all kick the butts of our creator and created living human kind into people of different races of racism as the Son of Dirty old men in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr that living human kind do not know how to create living human kind into mankind as the Son of God in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr living human kind were all living in misery without our creator in making a monkey out of ourselves in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr the blunders and slip-ups with human errors was created by the dirty old men in office who crowned themselves as the men who would be king in making a monkey out of their own children in planet of apes with self loss and self prides, self lack of knowledge, self rudeness and self discrimination of self racism to our creator's universal gifts of life vital for the survival and advancement of their own children in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr all the children were surviving and running on batteries in planet of apes.
The misery expose by the mystery of us-911 in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr Batman and Robin of the west with the Joker of the east were blind as a bat hanging up-side down still living in caves were still primitive living human kind in planet of apes.
At loss and blurr everyone is moving backwards in time in planet of apes.

Answer 5

so, what is it you wanted to ask us, or did you forget already?