Reply #8: This underscores my point. I think you are dead on correct.

[amber dog democrat]

and for that matter who says we have a functioning democracy here?
but this is what the first Bush Admin feared would happen. Its kind of like the old saying that there was only ONE Yugoslavian, ( Tito ). The rest were various nationalities within.
At this point there is so much precession going on that any thing more the US does will only hasten the destabilization. things are no longer in control and Iraq is going to to its own way.

I am thinking how little the PNAC planners seemed to understand what they were setting loose when they were planning in invasion. Better the demon you know than.... well you get my point.

And isnt it ironic that Sadam was largley created by the US and the CIA ?
We need to let them sort things out and stop stealing their oil .