Congratulations, Teribus--you're right, you never did say you would tell us how "national reconciliation" is progressing in Iraq.

You win your point--now you can finally sleep tonight.


Gee, I wonder why you haven't told us about "national reconciliation". Could it be since it's not in fact progressing?--the whole country is breaking up into a crazy-quilt of "Green Zones"--protected by walls and/or the fact that only one faction is dominant within each enclave--either Shiite or Sunni--or in "Kurdistan", the Kurds.

Meanwhile the US arms the Sunnis, and Maliki refuses to incorporate the armed Sunnis into the Iraqi armed forces and police--thereby ensuring an armed Sunni force outside national control.

And Sadr just waits for the "surge" to end and the US to start pulling out.

Yep, it's just hunky-dory in Iraq.

And it's mainly due to the fact that Maliki agrees with you--that all Sunnis are the equivalent of hardcore Nazis in 1945 and deserve "no consideration", in your felicitous phrase.

Now perhaps you can bring yourself to finally give a straight answer to this question: was buying time for"national reconciliation" the ultimate goal of the "surge"?

Yes or no?

No agonizing attempt to bury us in irrelevant lists, gleaned from your ongoing pillaging of the Net for red herring is necessary--for once.