Reply #8: yeah but look on the bright side:

[kenny blankenship]

The worst has probably already happened over there. One in every twenty five Iraqis is dead, and another is displaced. Iraq's urban areas have been ethnically cleansed (Basra) or partitioned and partly ethnically cleansed (Baghdad). That's what our counter insurgency geniuses call a civil war "burning itself out". There's not much more to destroy. So whatever happens as factions fight over the tattered remains of Iraq, it probably won't look as bad as before to a media that is mostly not watching anymore. And so with the help of the media and government, Americans will conclude huh, I guess it's going OK now