Well, Dougie, I'll meet you half way. The troops can stay but Bush has to call for an "Emergency Summit" in the Middle East and spend just 10% of his military budget on promoting peace in the region. Yeah, he can us some of those slick ad-men that wrote Powell's speech, a good number of clergy from all the various religions, couselors, group facilitators, and men who have made peace and reconciliation their life guiding forces, like Jimmy Carter, Dick Gregory, Mohammed Ali, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela, etc. Now, here's the rules. No one leaves until the job is done. Got it? And then, just to make sure that everyone lives up to what they agree, the troops can stay as interim peace keepers for as long as it takes.

So go ahead and tell me why it won't work. We allready well know why your way doesn't work. One war just brings on another which brings on another and the beat goes on and mankind in general gets the shaft because the Boss Hogs of the world never met a war not worth fighting.... 'er at least sending the peasant class off to fight...

Bobert