The word is out

[spindrifter]

"George Bush has learned enough to know that he cannot claim "mission accomplished" in Iraq - as he so arrogantly did in May 2003, just as the real war was beginning in earnest."

...snip...

"Talk of withdrawing from Iraqi cities sounded sensible enough, but there was no broader recognition of how the fatally magnetic effect of the US occupation is itself sustaining the insurgency and that ending it depends on splitting off foreign jihadis from the Iraqi Sunni mainstream by using negotiation, amnesties and building a more inclusive political system."

snip...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1654798,00.html

It would be interesting if the public conversation included what the Guardian mentions...negotiation, amnesties and development of a political system that is open to participation of the many interests that are Iraq.