Here we go

REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

The final act may be starting:

Thousands of Shi'ite civilians charged with guarding neighborhoods in Iraq marched through Baghdad on Wednesday in a show of force likely to stir passions in a country ravaged by sectarian violence.

Young men in civilian uniforms and headbands, all members of what is known as the popular committees, chanted as a speaker called on them to crush "terrorists" and loyalists of ousted President Saddam Hussein leading a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government.

"Step on terrorism," he said.

The crowd included members of the Badr Organization, one of the armed Shi'ite groups Sunni Arabs accuse of running militia death squads, a charge they deny.

Shorter message, Terrorist = Sunni

Amazing how we somehow think an international body stuck in Southern Lebanon with nebulous responsibilities other than taking up "missile flight path" space can solve a damn thing, when 127,000 and now more American troops, along with a few thousand others who can actually enforce things still cannot stop virtually anything.