Reply #7: One of the posts on TPMmuckrakers points out how it will probably end

[Robbien]

Just back from the mid-east. Wonderful friend of mine who I have known for 20 years and I had dinner. He is utterly despondent. This entire study in idiocy will end precisely in the only way it ever could. The artificial construction known as Iraq will disolve into it's historic parts...Kurdistan, Basrah and a warlord rich no man's land surrounding Bahgdad. Unfortunately , Bush would prefer an apolyptic conflagration on which he could blame the failure of his venture...over any other outcomes.

My despondent friend, who I paraphrase slightly, who addressed the entire conversation to me as "you" as if i represented America, which we all to some extent do. He has been going in and our of Bahgdad since the occupation began. But since leaving in December he will no longer go back. It's no longer useful, and far too dangerous.

"The Reserves are now full. Sadr now has only to give the word and 10,000 Americans will die in a day. You have trained them. they are standing right there with you! Sadr has more soldiers in Bahgdad than America. You will be killed by the men you thought you trusted. The men you patrol with. The men who feed you. By men in your Green Zone. America no longer has a snake in it's tent. The snake is now inside your own body. Sadr can not believe how stupid you are. You have taught him everything. He was nothing under Saddam. Now he will be the next Saddam. He just needs to decide when enough of the Sheiks will support him. When he can pay them off. Then he will kill you like dogs. And Bush will then blame Iran. He will blame Iran and the whole region will suffer. Iran doesn't want any of this. It is just trying to keep itself from being destroyed too. Bush should be a man and blame himself, but he is a boy, and a boy does not know to blame himself for what he has done."
Posted by: Spoon