If U.S. troops are withdrawn from Iraq will there be civil war?

yes

Sunni/Shiite violence will always remain, wherever we are there or not; Saddam kept the Shia under control by killing all opposition without mercy; that's how he kept tabs on them.

Now that Saddam is room temperature, that control is gone; we leave and it will be back again; add to that the external influence of groups like Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Mahdi Army, 1920 Brigades, etc... The whole situation will remain the same, if not get worst.

I believe that if the Iraqi Government sees that we will leave, it will motivate them to start taking more aggressive action against the foreign fighters that come into their country to kill and maim innocent people and for once, take over operations; then our forces can come home to the respect and admiration they truly deserve.

Having spent 16 months there, I would have to answer that yes there will be a tremendous amount of civil strife. The country is rife with corruption that is controlled by the local sheiks. Each Sheik has his clan and they have their own "turf". Add to that the Sunni-Shia-Kurd conflict and it is nearly impossible to have a cooperative central government without a tyrant in the office of president. I remember the words of Ronald Reagan upon taking office, when asked about Saddam he replied "The Devil that you know is better than the Devil that you don't know". The other thing that I remember vividly are the words of an Iraqi interpreter who said to me "in Iraq, even the truth is a lie".

There is a low level civil war already in Iraq. Iraq can be seen as killing a gang lord who controlled a huge presence of thugs in his neighborhood. The U.S. presence is sort of like putting 10 cops in a neighborhood with 4 or 5 gangs, each with 100 members, determined to kill each other. Unfortunately, we have no more cops, unless we want to reinstate the draft. Should the cops get out? I think, sadly, yes. Iraq will descend into a bloodbath, and it's our fault, for believing a political class that assured us that it would be a "cakewalk".

There all ready is a civil war in Iraq.

We might as well pull our troops. Iraq will have its civil war whether we pull our troops in ten minutes or in ten years.

The Shia hate the Sunni hate the Kerds and vice versa.

The Iraqi Gov't has not been dragging its feet, it simply doesn't have power to enforce its rules. But yes, there was a very good Time magazine article on the issue of Sunni-Shi'ite violence and it's escalation.

Liberals are ignorant knappy-headed hoes, who, in a roundabout way, have a secret meter this is used to gauge good civil wars we ought to consistently be in contact in from undesirable civil wars that we ought to consistently no longer. the only distinction between the two that i will see is one we are frequently in charge for, and one we had no longer something to do with. i think you are able to desire to surmise then that liberals do unlike taking accountability for his or her very own messes, yet do no longer suggestions settling others messes. That seems a incredibly precise summation of liberal habit era, i think.

It's already civil war, and has been for 30 years. The civil war in Iraq was merely suspended by Saddam's brutality.

now he's gone, so let the games begin again.....

I don't think anyone can stop it. I think they'll have to go through that era in their history, and either work it out or split into 2 or 3 countries. The US is just temporarily, partially in the way, getting US soldiers killed and spending money.

There is a civil war being fought in Iraq, right now, as I'm writing this.

When the military is pulled out of Iraq the country will collapse into chaos. Another regime will take over with no thought of democracy. Iran or Pakistan may invade.