Washington State Congressional Representative Jim McDermott knows the Middle East pretty well, and spoke out strongly against a war with Iraq. As a result, he wound up being labeled "Bagdad Jim" and "traitor" by Right-Wing blabbermouths. I've attended a couple of meetings where McDermott spoke. He said on the eve of the invasion of Iraq that this was almost certain to end up in a civil war, and "It would not surprise me at all if we wound up leaving Iraq the same way we left Vietnam: frantically scrambling aboard helicopters on the roof of the embassy."
McDermott has been right about a lot of things. It looks like he might be right about this, too.