Thank you, GUEST, Ireland for the historical perspective. If I might just venture an over simplifictaion and correct me if I'm wrong. Seems, Iraq has always been trying to please the colonial master, though used, confused and exploited by these masters. Then, one little slip of not knowing exactly what the orders of the day were and we're here on the threshold of one very screwed up mess where a lot of folks are gonna die to protect the colonial intersts... How far off? I suspect, not far at all...

Bobert