The Writing On The Wall

If you weren't worried about Iraq, the Middle East, and potential for War Without End, Amen before reading this post, consider changing your mind.

In one of the few comprehensive surveys of how many Iraqis have fled their country since the US invasion, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said last month that there were 644,500 refugees in Syria and Jordan in 2005 -- about 2.5 per cent of Iraq's population. In total, 889,000 Iraqis had moved abroad, creating "the biggest new flow of refugees in the world", according to Lavinia Limon, the committee's president.

And the exodus may only just be starting.

The majority of those in exodus are Sunni. The Shias, who are a higher percentage of the Iraqi population,