A Civil War I COULD get behind

While so many are fearful of an all out Civil War in Iraq, there APPEARS to one on the horizon that I could definitely get behind and support.

Apparently, Sunnis in the Anbar Province have had enough of the insurgents' tactics vis a vis killing Imams and tribal leaders, and have turned their hostilities away from the budding Democracy and fledgling political leadership and have set their sights on the insurgents themselves.

After killing the chief of the Naim tribe and his son, and killing a top tribal sheik who headed the Fallujah city council, and then assassinating the leader of the al-Jubur tribe,

Tribal chiefs in Iraq's western Anbar province and in an area near the northern city of Kirkuk, two regions teeming with insurgents, are vowing to strike back at al-Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni Arab-led group that is waging war against Sunni tribal leaders who are cooperating with the Iraqi government and the U.S. military. Anbar tribes have formed a militia that has killed 20 insurgents from al-Qaeda in Iraq, leaders said.

I find this passage in the article especially telling:

In a communique, the participants vowed "the shedding of blood" of anyone involved in "sabotage, killings, kidnappings, targeting police and army, attacking the oil and gas pipelines and their transporters, assassinating the religious and tribal figures, technicians, and doctors."

"Hawijah was never a hideout for terrorists and fugitives," the statement added. "Anyone who provides refuge to terrorists will be considered and dealt with like a criminal and terrorist."

We are seeing some signs, however small or subtle, that there is a point at which even the most violent and hostile among the Iraqi people will have reached their own tipping point, will denounce the insurgency as the mechanism to gain or retain control, and will turn to a more political method of addressing their issues and concerns.

While our own Constitution is often challenged and assaults on it's content and context relentless, there continues to be an opportunity with the "Democratization of the Middle East Bush Doctrine" to see that passage in our First Amendment realized as the method of dissent across that region:

"or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

It is frequently said that we can not leave Iraq until she can secure and defend herself from enemies both foreign and domestic.

If it takes a so-called civil war between al Qaeda Sunnis and the rest of the Sunni population to move past homicide bombings and terror to achieve peaceable assembly and petitioning of the Iraqi government for a redress of grievances, then so be it.