US An Obstacle to Preventing Civil War?

Finally military leaders are seeing the truth of their worries. Many powerful sectors of the Shia backed government is committed to partitioning Iraq. The Badr Corps have led the sectarian violence and is increasingly joined by the Mahdi Army despite Sadr's denials.
Los Angeles Times

Growing numbers of American military officers have begun to privately question a key tenet of U.S. strategy in Iraq — that setting a hard deadline for troop reductions would strengthen the insurgency and undermine efforts to create a stable state. The Iraqi government's refusal to take certain measures to reduce sectarian tensions between Sunni Arabs and the nation's Shiite Muslim majority has led these officers to conclude that Iraqis will not make difficult decisions unless they are pushed.

But Bush and Cheney only can offer the same old retoric. If this war is so important, why aren't advocating sending 500,000 troops to quel the violence? The Cynical neo-cons are seeking to play an influential role in Iraq with the blood of our sons and daughters. It's not about Democracy, it's about money and oil.
washingtonpost.com

Faced with potential GOP defeat in both chambers, Bush and Cheney aimed to avert that by convincing voters that they cannot risk giving the opposition party any power in Washington. "However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses," Bush told a raucous crowd of about 5,000 GOP partisans packed in an arena at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, one of his stops Monday. "That's what's at stake in this election. The Democrat goal is to get out of Iraq. The Republican goal is to win in Iraq."