Story

There's a million stories in the War on Iraq and I'm sure we'll soon begin consuming them in their fictionalized forms whether literature, movies or TV shows. Hey, wait, TV actually started during the war, a first for Hollywood which never really addressed the true stories of Vietnam in their fictions until it was over (and then the race the on).

And we all know Iraq is hell, as those who are living through all the destruction and everyday horror wrought in wake of the disastrous decision for us to invade to remove Saddam Hussein from power keep reminding us.

Look what we've done to this country. Good neighbors become executioners. That seems to be the unintended dominant story to come out of the War, the one the BushCheneyCo never even considered, not Rummy, not Karl. Is there really one that's bigger?

Saddam who? If it was that easy to beat that tinpot bastard, and we're less safe now, then that won't be the biggest paragraph in the history books.

So to inaugurate serious storytelling from our nightmare Iraq, I nominate this true-life tale.

Simmering for, what, 1500 years:

It's all Shi'a vs. Sunni now.