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Wolfie and Perle and Rummy...were out to LUNCH....Iraq never was a country the gang of three completely overlooked the demographics of the territory...Kurd, Shia and Sunni....before they lept into the fire...Japan and Germay had a HOMOGENUS POPULATION...

Until those groups reconcil themselves all is going to be chaos in Iraq...

Sadam was the unifying principle in Iraq

Reconciliation may mean at the end of a gun....

The concept of Democracy in the ME is completely foreign to the Culture and Religion...there simply is NO tradition....the closest thing was British Rule after WW1...

If U want to see what the Administration is really thinking these days...look at where Wolfie goes to work every mornining... The World Bank and look what LBJ did with McNamera when he wanted to get rid of him...gave him the job at the World Bank...

Bushes mistake was in listening to these guys...these guys who were supposedily the BEST AND BRIGHTEST....I do think Bushy is perplexed as to what to do next....his experts failed him...and in reality there is NO EASY ANSWER OR WAY OUT...

If the USA were to leave tommorow the fkin place would become another Somillia and in the chaos the Jihadies could thrive...so the USA is stuck with being a guarantor of stability and as such will continue to trickle out blood and money...The REGION due to the strategic importance of oil as the fuel of choich for the world economy is of National Security Importance to the USA...End of Story

Or if U are so dead set on leaving the place just think what $7.00 for a gallon of gas would do to the US economy....hmmm end life as we know it...end of the MIDDLE CLASS....

and that brings another rant up....the Middle Class.....

In my day..being Middle Class meant Dad went off to workd and Moms stayed at home...then in the 70's and 80's Moms had to go to work along with Dad to keep up the Middle Class lifestyle....now as the century turned it takes Mom, Dad and the Credit Card to maintain the Middle Class lifestyle....