Really a civil war?

The BBC is reporting that Michael Ancram, a senior Tory MP, has [called for troops to be pulled](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4929180.stm) from Iraq, on the grounds that there is a civil war:

>”It is time now for us to get out of Iraq with dignity and honour while we still can,” said the former shadow defence secretary.
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>Mr Ancram said Britain must “not take sides between Sunnis and Shias”.
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>”It has always been evident that in the event of civil war we should just get out,” he said.

When it comes to “Sunnis and Shias”, Ancram seems to make the classic mistake of confusing Sunnis (which are the ordinary Muslims who live in the central belt of Iraq around Baghdad, and a large proportion of the Kurdish Muslims as well), and the insurgents, who are apparently not Sunnis but extremist Wahhabis – hence their practice of bombing mosques. They come from a Sunni background, but their religious attitudes are starkly different from those of ordinary Sunnis. It’s in nobody’s interests, least of all those of ordinary Iraqi Sunni Muslims, to be abandoned to that type of insurgent.

(I’m not saying I think troops should stay, just that the insurgents may not be representative of Sunnis, as Ancram seems to think they are.)