If Iraq just needs peacekeepers at this point...

[Roland99]

wouldn't that be a job for the UN or for NATO?

If the Propagandist hadn't pissed off the rest of the world and if the civilian PNAC fvcks running the Pentagon hadn't stifled realistic viewpoints, we might have been able to be out of Iraq now or at least planning major troop reductions.

[mzmolly]

1. Yup. And, frankly we should never have gone the F in, but that goes

w/out saying.

[blogbear]

2. Expecting planning now? ..It's been goin' it all alone

as the no-brainer!

[EVDebs]

3. Plus, I hear the Brits are leaving Iraq in 2006 sometime... US alone after

that ? Bush said on Mar 16, 2005, that US troops will start leaving once Iraqis can defend themselves.

But during the summer Sen McCain said on CNN that the US would be in Iraq for 'ten, twenty years' :

http://www.tkipp.net/html/editorials/columns/herbert/herbert_040903.html

And at the same time Bush is building 14 'permanent' bases in Iraq. What gives ?

[Roland99]

5. This is what got me thinking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1455394

[oblivious]

4. UN peacekeepers are invited in by two sides in a conflict.

They would never go into a situation like this where an underground resistance is fighting an invader.