> By the way, reading Patrick Cockburn's book, which I'm doing in small
> chunks, makes it clear that the sectarian & ethnic violence in Iraq
> began almost immediately after Saddam fell. Lots of very bad shit was
> bottled up under his reign.
Much of the book is a (useful) review of what was well known to anybody who read farther afield than the NYT, but his emphasis on how quickly things got violent surprised me.
-- Andy