Oh, I forgot the most important thing we should be doing right now: what we promised the Iraqis we would do. Get medicine, doctors, water, rebuilding, retraining, education, etc going again. If the US would put even 1/16th the effort into protecting schools and hospitals that it is putting into protecting Halliburton employees engaged in war profiteering, and the pipeline, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in right now.

It would also really help if the US actually gave a shit about the Iraqis.