I can see you're hoping for some kind of utopian event that will fix everything that's happened the last several yrs.

How bout if u close your eyes. And picture your home in total rubble. What u call your country is now basically a state of free-for-all.

The problem is, we've opened this pandora's box. It wouldn't be quite so bad, but there were many experts who warned that consequences of toppling Saddam and what we would need to be prepared for. And they were not only ignored, but shunned, even ostracized.

And everyday we make it worse. Just by our being there. So now we are in a catch-22.

Tell me how u see this great democracy unfolding over there?

>>>>It's painful to think of U.S. troops remaining there until these bozos get their act together. That could be forever.
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>>>Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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>>>How much thought have you given to the consequences of succeeding in forming a democratic Iraq?
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>>Not much.
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>Try, in your mind, just as an exercise, to eliminate your current batch of conclusions.
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>Now, open yourself to the possibilities that 15 years from now, Iraq is a real working democracy.
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>Think about that for a while.
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>Think about the local impact. Then the regional impact. Then the global impact.
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>Then consider what would happen if we simply maintained the status quo, because that would have been easiest.
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>I know, it seems unlikely that we'll succeed.
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>This sort of thing has never really happened before.
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>That makes it all the more amazing, in my eyes.