What did he say that was factually wrong about the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites?

Once again Bart you say what you feel with no facts about the core issues. You are the king of talking points and kill the messenger.

I wouldn’t read Ritter analysis if he knew the lottery numbers in advance…he is a scumbag pedophile who will eventually get caught and convicted with real jail time.

You’re acting as if Ritter discovered the centuries old hostilities between these two muslim factions. He, like you has a keen sense of the obvious, but no clue about how to address the problem.

Sunni Bloc Quits Iraq Government; Attacks Kill 67 in Baghdad

FOX-Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc announced its withdrawal from the government Wednesday, undermining Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s efforts to seek reconciliation among the country’s rival factions.

Violence continued unabated, with 50 people killed and 60 wounded when a homicide attacker exploded a fuel truck near a gas station in western Baghdad. Another 17 died in a separate car bomb attack in a central region of the capital. The U.S. military announced the deaths of three American soldiers killed by a sophisticated, armor-piercing bomb.

Rafaa al-Issawi, a leading member of the Front, said at a news conference in the capital that the bloc’s six Cabinet ministers would submit their resignations later in the day.

Al-Issawi said the decision to pull out from the government followed what he called al-Maliki’s failure to respond to a set of demands put forward by the Accordance Front last week, when it gave the prime minister seven days to meet its demands. The ultimatum expired Wednesday.

Among the demands: a pardon for security detainees not charged with specific crimes, the disbanding of militias and the participation of all groups represented in the government in dealing with security issues.

What he wrote is general knowledge for anyone who read anything about the conflict between Sunni and Shiite.

Try reading about Iraq not just NEOCON talking points! Please tell me what he said that was factually wrong?

But hey please do not let facts get in the way you feel!

The conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims dates to 7th century

The tension between the Sunni and Shiite Muslim communities in Iraq has been largely a secular fight for political dominance since the toppling of Saddam Hussein, but one with deeply religious underpinnings.
Under Saddam, the minority Sunni Arab sect in Iraq was dominant and brutally oppressed the majority Shiite sect and rebellious Kurds in the north of the country. Now, the largely Sunni insurgency in the country is fighting to regain its political standing.
Sunni leaders have, by and large, rejected the country’s newly drafted consitution as a document that gives them too little political power. The draft was primarily the work of Shiite Muslims and ethnic Kurds.
Shiites make up about 60 percent of Iraq’s population, while Sunnis are a 20 percent minority. In the larger Muslim and Arab world, the vast majority of believers are Sunnis.
The Iraqi Shiites, many of whose leaders took refuge in neighboring Iran during the Saddam era, have major backing from Tehran. There, a Shiite theocracy has run the country for a quarter century. But the possibility of Iranian influence in Iraq is an anathema to the Sunni-dominated Arab world.
Islam has been divided into the orthodox Sunni and minority Shiite sects since shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of the religion, in 632.
Sunnis accepted Abu Bakr, a respected contemporary of the prophet, to lead what was then an international political as well as spiritual empire. A small group, the “shi’at Ali,” or party of Ali, followed the much younger Ali, Muhammad’s son-in-law.
Ali would eventually head the Islamic empire. But the rivalries between his followers and supporters of others who claimed leadership in the generations after Muhammad’s death periodically exploded into violence.
In a 7th-century battle, Sunnis killed Hussein — Ali’s son and Muhammad’s grandson — and his 72 companions on the plains of Karbala in what is now Iraq. Shiites mark Hussein’s death in emotional annual rituals. (AP)

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Convicted pedophiles are not the best sources to reference regarding the Middle East. Scott Ritter…is this the best you can do?

No surprise on the response from defeatocrats…good news = Bush shill…bad news = reliable source….you people are so predictable.