Caught in the middle of a civil war

Day one of Iraq's civil war:

"The US plan for the liberation of Iraq has finally entered its final stages.

As civil war looms almost inevitably, the US plan for Iraq is bearing fruit.

Reuters has reported that at least nine Sunnis were killed in Basra."

Daily Kos: Iraq FUBAR thread:

Meanwhile, no one seems to care anymore when our soldiers get killed in Iraq. We had four more killed yesterday. The total is now 2,284. That is now more than the War of 1812 (2,260), and closing in on the Spanish-American War (2,456). Hopefully we'll be out before we hit the levels of the American Revolutionary War (4,435).