"And he understands the complexity of dealing with the diverse Iraqi factions."

There will probably be no political solution among the Iraqi factions to save American troops from the bulk of this task.

Various Iraqi factions and ethnic groups will take the chance to settle old scores.

They have become sitting ducks between the Iraqi factions.

Americans will not continue to send their sons and daughters into the Iraqi maelstrom in order to defend Iraqi factions from one another.

He suggested that other neighbors in the region would intervene on behalf of Iraqi factions:

We must immediately bring the leaders of the Iraqi factions together at a Dayton Accords-like summit meeting.

The two Iraqi factions are vying with each other for control of the north.

Now, according to an article in The New Republic, armed Iraqi factions are preparing for civil war.

The Bush administration said it was avoiding direct intervention to break the deadlock among Iraqi factions, still trying to form a government six weeks after national elections.