Let's face it, the Sunnis need the US military to protect them not only from the Shittes but increasingly from Iraqi Al-Qaeda as withy the continues disintergration of Iraq as a nation into a downward spiriling civil war... I don't even have to again remind the Bushites here that many of us saw this coming even brfore the '03 invasion...

So here's the recent scorecard:

*The US is fighting Iraqi Al-Qaeda (which has nuthin in common with the bin-Laden group)

*The US is fighting some Sunni groups

*The US is fighting Shiite militia groups

*Shiite militias are fighting Sunni insurgents

*Shiite militias are fighting Iraqi Al-Qaeda

*In the south the Shiite militias are fi8ghting each other

*In the west Sunni tribal leaders are very suspicious of the Sunnis in the *so-called* governemnt and...

*In the north "tensions are rising between the Kurds and neighboring Turkey" (1)

Did I leave anyone out???

Looks very much like a crazy civil war with a "dizzying mosaic of battle lines" (ibid)

Hmmmmmm?

Like I said, there is no victory to be had here for the Bush administartion... This thing is out of control... The heavily secured "Green Zone" is no longer safe... This is a failed policy for Bush and it's just a matter of time before the US will have to accept that it was not winable in the first place...

Bobert

(1) Washington Post, April 14, 2007