A Huge Mess of Our Own Creation ...

The situation in Iraq is a hell of a mess and the route of the problem is democracy. The twist is that I mean our existing one, not the one we hoped to create in Iraq.



The clear civil war between left and right in the U.S. magnified ten fold by a highly partisan, extremely irresponsible, bottom line profit driven media has transformed a noble cause into a costly mess. The only question left is if we as a country will pull ourselves off the canvas before we leave ourselves completely susceptible to a knock defeat.



If we pull out leaving Iraq a mess, I do not feel it will be an immediate threat to the safety of the U.S. We will still have a strong presence of sorts to keep an eye. What we will be on the way to losing is control of our own destiny. Iran will go nuclear and be the power of that region. The region controls the oil that is the most vital resource on the planet. The U.S. will be transformed from a country dictating it's d



Increased Strife Is Foreseen in Iraq if U.S. Troops Leave

By MICHAEL R. GORDON and ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: May 27, 2007


WASHINGTON, May 26 — There is one matter on which American military commanders, many Iraqis and some of the Bush administration’s staunchest Congressional critics agree: if the United States withdrew its forces from Baghdad’s streets this fall, the murder and mayhem would increase.



http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/world/middleeast/27withdraw.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin