Iraq, coming unglued!

I suspect it was inevitable but it appears to be happening, Iraq is coming unglued. Violence Breaks Out All Over Baghdad. This is in addition to the violence in Mosul and the rest of the Sunni Triangle since the US stormed Falluja and is also in response to the raid on a Sunni Mosque yesterday.

AP, BAGHDAD, Iraq - Baghdad exploded in violence Saturday, as insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.
Some of the heaviest violence came in Azamiyah, a largely Sunni Arab district of Baghdad where a day earlier U.S. troops raided the capitol's main Sunni mosque. Shops were in flames, and a U.S. Humvee burned, with the body of what appeared to be its driver inside.

Jazz's post on a blog from Baghdad gives us a pretty good idea of how bad things are in that city, but much of the Sunni area in Iraq is the same.

U.S. forces and insurgents also battled in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, where clashes have been seen almost daily. Nine Iraqis were killed and five wounded in Saturday's fighting, hospital officials said.


In northern Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi forces uncovered four decapitated bodies as they continued a campaign to crush militants who rose up last week. American and Iraqi forces detained 30 suspected guerrillas overnight in Mosul, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Tom Englehardt has a good piece in Mother Jones today on root causes of the Iraqi violence that is worth a read. It is going to be increasingly difficult for the administration and Faux news to spin Iraq as the chaos continues to mount.