An interview: The Country Has Already Collapsed

One minor point: both Ron and Teribus can find support for their position as to civil war.

A major point: Americans should perhaps not be there, but now that they are there, they cannot just pick up and go.
I remember Peace making this point in don't know which thread.

I have one more link to a in my eyes extremely good article with links to many other articles. It has a disadvantage for it is in German. But all of the many links in that article are to English language articles and are marked in the linked article in English indicating the content. So the germanically challenged can easily scan for the links. The title of the article indicates the content:

Box at the ears by experts for Bush's Iraq politics

Wolfgang