Iraq Remains on Treacherous Path After Handover

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20040630/pl_nm/iraq_bush_dc

<snip>"The Bush administration should have thought two years ago that there actually could be worse things in Iraq than Saddam Hussein," said H.W. Brands, a political historian at Texas A&M University.


"Hope isn't quite dead, but it's sure on its last legs," he said. "What the president is learning is that there's this huge gap between what you can hope for and what you can expect in foreign affairs."

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Some conservatives say they hope U.S. troops remain in Iraq indefinitely as a permanent presences in the Middle East.

"Even if we're successful with the internal struggle in Iraq, this will be a Shia dominated proto-democracy in the Arab heartland. It's going to have repercussions and we have to make sure this thing's protected," said Thomas Donnelly, a national security expert at the American Enterprise Institute.

[meisje]

1. last legs?

how about stubs left over from a roadside bomb!

[pinniped]

2. US troops permanently stationed in a hostile country?

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Some conservatives say they hope U.S. troops remain in Iraq indefinitely as a permanent presences in the Middle East.
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I don't think that's such a great idea.

[leftchick]

4. well it is the PNAC idea after all...

all of their "ideas" suck...

[hadrons]

3. please send Thomas Donnelly some enlistment papers ....

[daleo]

5. They should have mentioned this at the start

"Some conservatives say they hope U.S. troops remain in Iraq indefinitely as a permanent presences in the Middle East."

Most people would never have gone along if they would have known this was just to further PNAC/ChimpNAC goals of middle east domination.