No civil war here………. things are going swimmingly. 300,000 have fled to other parts of Iraq. 890,000 have fled to Jordan, Iran and Syria. Yeah, I bet if you asked them, they’d say things are really progressing for the good.

Tuesday October 10, 2006 4:31 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - More than 300,000 Iraqis have fled their homes to other parts of the country to escape violence since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, with the rate swelling in the past six months of Shiite-Sunni killings, the immigration minister said Tuesday.

In addition, some 890,000 Iraqis have moved to Jordan, Iran and Syria since Saddam’s fall, Immigration Minister Abdul-Samad Sultan told reporters.

The flight is solidifying the sectarian divide in this country of around 30 million people. He said those who moved within Iraq went to areas where their own community dominates - Shiites leaving Sunni-majority or mixed areas for Shiite ones and vice versa.

Full article at The Guardian