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The article is about the civil violence that has predominated in Iraq since 2004. Contrary to the generally accepted belief, it argues that the civil violence is not directly related to the attempts to reconstruct Iraq. The paper maintains that the violence is the consequence of a strcutural defect that is the previous regimen have given rise to an uprooted state in Iraq, as a result of which, the society has always been in search of supporting mechanisms that could fulfill the functions of an absent state. This has led to the emergence of numerous alternative formations in Iraq, which were violence prone by nature. This potential for violence was let loose with the collapse of the Saddam administration. The termination of violence will require the existing potential to be successfully but not forcefully managed