Its now inevitable:

Sectarian Fury Turns Violent in Wake of Iraq Shrine Blast

By EDWARD WONG
and ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: February 23, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 23 - At least 95 people, some of them prominent Sunni Arab clerics, were killed in revenge in Baghdad and the surrounding areas in the chaotic 24 hours following the bombing Wednesday morning of one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, in the town of Samarra, an Interior Ministry official said today. More bodies were being discovered throughout the day across Iraq.

The dome of the Golden Mosque at the revered Askariya Shrine in Samarra, Iraq, lay in ruins Wednesday after a bomb was detonated inside the mosque. More Photos >
Sunni Arab politicians broke off talks with Shiite and Kurdish leaders over the formation of a new government, saying they would not engage in discussions until those responsible for the attacks on Sunnis had been brought to justice.

Thousand of Shiites took to the streets across Iraq in a second day of protests against the insurgent attack in Samarra, which destroyed the golden dome of the Al Askariya shrine, the burial place of two revered Shiite imams. The protests today were largely peaceful, though the crowds expressed unbridled fury. In Baghdad, militiamen loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr helped organize some of the most vocal demonstrations.

Three journalists working for the Al Arabiya network were ambushed and killed by gunmen on the outskirts of Samarra on Wednesday as they were reporting on the shrine bombing, the network said today.

The attack on the shrine has sparked the worst sectarian conflict in Iraq since the American invasion, with Iraqi leaders and clerics calling for restraint and trying to steer the country away from exploding into full-fledged civil war.

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You can thank our idiot-for-brains president for this debacle. All of this was predictable well before we invaded Iraq and murdered thousands of its innocent citizens. The sectarian strife we have triggered will make the Palestinian/Israeli conflict look like a high school girls soccer game.