There have been reports that both the White House and the Pentagon are considering taking sides in Iraq's (non) Civil War and backing the Shiites and Kurds in hopes that giving up on policies aimed at "national reconciliation" will help us both destroy the Sunni-led insurgency and possibly pull us ahead of the Iranians in the competition for influence in Iraq. 

Yep, nothing like the proverbial "white terror" or pogrom to make up for all the fuck-ups we've inflicted upon Iraq; a "simple" solution with some very bloody historical antecedents.  What?  You mean most of the Sunni Arab regimes surrounding Iraq probably wouldn't let that happen, and they've even pledged to intervene to protect Sunnis if we were ever to pack up and finally leave?  Turkey worries about an independent Kurdistan?  But it sounded so good??  Who are these people?