>Hugo,
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>Very good link and the paragraph you posted. But, unlike you, I didn't hear any analysts saying possibilities of Iraqis killing each other at the rate they do now.

Frankly, they disappointed me too. I expected them to resist the occupation, to unite against the invaders, with the only exception of Kurds, whom I expected to play their own game. The Shia vs Sunni vs Al-Qaeda vs government forces got me scratching my head.

Besides, where were all these glorious fighters while Saddam was in power?

> We probably paid attention to different things. For the most part what I remember before the war is both republicans and democrats agreeing that Saddam probably has WMD. But democrats didn't want to go to war. And at the same time I remember many of those Iraqi dissidents trying to convince the public that US forces will be welcomed by the Iraqi people who are starving to free themselves from the tyranny of saddam and who long for democracy. Where are all those dissidents now?

Cashing in. Remember Chalabi? How many of those we saw were Chalabi himself, or his guys?


>But as Parcells says, it is what it is. We are in the war that most of the Americans don't want. If it were up to me, I would pull the troops out of Iraq today. This of course would create even more bloody civil war in Iraq which the world will blame on USA. So you damn if you do and damn if you don't.

The world is already blaming it on USA, since the very beginning. That won't change. But at least with the occupation removed, the Iraqis would be in charge of their own destiny henceforth. And if civil war is their choice, then from that point on it's their own blindness to choose so.

> I saw a headline today in the local newspaper that the war is costing USA 2 billion dollars a week. Even if the number is exaggerated, it is still astonishing figure. And the worst of it that the world and the iraqi don't and won't appreciate it.

The Iraqis don't see a dime of that money, most of them. What is there to appreciate?