Front Page of Gulf Daily News: US WAR A 'LOST BATTLE'

[sabra]

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=160596&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29227

US WAR A 'LOST BATTLE'

WASHINGTON: The US war in Iraq is a "lost battle" and the violence-ravaged nation's "dire" plight seems certain to see it shatter along ethnic lines, an advisor to the Saudi government is warning.

The damning analysis, unveiled in a presentation at a two-day conference on US-Arab relations here, sees violence in Iraq getting worse and alleges large-scale Iranian "interference" there is set to grow.

"It is already a lost battle," said Nawaf Obaid, managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment project, at the annual policy-makers conference of the National Council on US-Arab Relations.

The question in Iraq is not "if the US succeeds - it has failed by every single measure that you can think of," said Obaid, private security and energy advisor to Saudi Ambassador to Washington Prince Turki Al Faisal.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. The Saudis think it's Iran's fault?

No surprise there.

[soothsayer]

2. The US "has failed by every single measure that you can think of"

Nice going, dumbass*!

[blm]

4. Those words sound very familiar. Kerry-Feingold Iraq withdrawal debate

where 13 senators stood for dealing with the REALITY of Iraq.

[jimshoes]

3. Way to go Mr. I'm a war president,

This is all your fault. No one else, and it will go down in history as the absolute worst chapter in American history. I only hope future generations will learn from you and your war mongering enablers and thieves and condemn anyone who tries to follow your disasterous example.
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[Hamlette]

5. I'm not sure about "the worst chapter" but still. . .

there was a time when I didn't want this war to go swimmingly because I knew PNAC had 7 countries on its list and if we "won" Iraq, Bush would go after others.

And for that I feel some guilt because I never wanted this kind of suffering.

It makes my heart sick to hear of the hell we have wrought.