The possibility of a civil war in Iraq seems now all but eminent, as the Shiites have retaliated after an attack on the al-Askari shrine in the city of Samarra. 29 Sunni mosques have been attacked in retaliation for the damaging of the golden dome of one of the country's holiest Shiite sites. Tensions have rising to a near boiling point since, well, as long as anyone can remember. Mr Talabani, head of the influential Kurdish Coalition said, “ the unity of Iraq is under attack”, which he later commented, “I am a poet and didn’t know it!” This latest war would continue the tradition of religious wars in the Middle East dating back to the beginning of the world. One Middle Eastern man was quoted as saying “ I am not sure why I hate the Shiites anymore but I hope they get what’s coming to them. And that is war and probably death. Sure I might die and everyone I love and my children, but they hate everyone anyways. We raised them that way. Although no Sunni extremist have claimed responsibility for the attacks in Samarra the Shiites took the chance to destroy as many of the Sunni as they could. When asked about the potential war brewing President Bush was quoted as saying, “You just can’t do anything nice for anyone anymore. We go to all the effort to free them from the oppression of an evil dictator and they go and try to oppress each other with bombs. That really sucks. I am totally going to get blamed for this.” So far only ABC has blamed the President for not creating religious tolerance in the region. No other major broadcasting organization really wants to get involved for fear of pissing these religious groups off.