The Iraqi government certainly thinks so.  In fact, they say breaking the country into smaller pieces based on the various sects is now inevitable.

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, meets Tony Blair in London today as violence in Iraq reaches a new crescendo and senior Iraqi officials say the break up of the country is inevitable.

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“Iraq as a political project is finished,” a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: “The parties have moved to plan B.” He said that the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties were now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad, where there is a mixed population. “There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into [Shia] east and [Sunni] west,” he said.

And the Iraqis obviously figured out why Bush supports Israel’s horrendous attack on Lebanon, something I’ve been questioning but hadn’t had the common sense to figure out.

“The government is all in the Green Zone like the previous one and they have left the streets to the terrorists,” said Mahmoud Othman, a veteran Iraqi politician. He said the situation would be made worse by the war in Lebanon because it would intensify the struggle between Iran and the US being staged in Iraq. The Iraqi crisis would now receive much reduced international attention.

The switch of American and British media attention to Lebanon and away from the rapidly deteriorating situation in Baghdad is much to the political benefit of Mr Blair and Mr Bush.

Ah, now I see.  Let the Israel/Lebanon conflict divert our attention away from the worsening situation in Iraq.  The U.S. government claims things are going swell, but reality didn’t say the same thing, so now we divert attention away from that issue so it’s easier to lie about it.  How’d I miss that?

It would appear the Iraqi government is powerless to stop the country from falling apart, and Bushco certainly is inept in that department since they can’t even admit there’s a problem, so this resignation to the finality of it all seems logical to me.  And who’s responsible for causing all this?

Oh, that would be the U.S.  Wow!  We’ve done a bang-up job over there, haven’t we?  And that new government we installed seems on top of things, huh?  I’m sure the hundreds of Iraqi civilians killed each and every day now would say otherwise — if they were still alive, that is.

[via Mike the Mad Biologist]