Ten reasons why the U.S. can't win in Iraq,

[ProSense]

the country is in a:

10 - Civil War

9 - Civil War

8 - Civil War

7 - Civil War

6 - Civil War

5 - Civil War

4 - Civil War

3 - Civil War

2 - http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/18/iraq-civil-war-4">Civil War

1 - Civil War

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[ProSense]

2. When civil war spreads

When civil war spreads

Car bombs have killed thousands in Baghdad

Iraq is in the midst of a civil war, but could the violence draw in the rest of the Middle East? Here, in a personal opinion, historian Niall Ferguson weighs the evidence.

As a consequence of a botched Anglo-American occupation, Iraq is now in the midst of a civil war - already one of the biggest in the world since 1945 - with the kind of escalating cycle of tit-for-tat killing and ethnic cleansing that can last for years, even decades.

Debate currently centres on how quickly the United States and the UK can wind down their involvement in Iraq and on whether or not neighbouring countries can be persuaded to help stabilise it.

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The trouble, of course, is that Iraq matters more than Rwanda, economically and strategically. Does anyone seriously believe that a regional conflagration would leave Israel and Saudi Arabia - the US's most important allies in the Middle East - unscathed?

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The really sobering lesson of the 20th Century is that some civil wars can grow into more than just regional wars. If the stakes are high enough, they have the potential to become world wars too.

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Poor Rwanda!

[Virginia Dare]

3. Which is why the Republicans just committed political suicide..

The Democrats made a brilliant political move. They tried to end the war, the Republicans refused. A year or two from now when the bloodshed is ten times worse than what it is now, those asshats will have to go home and explain themselves to their consituents. At that point, if we still want to continue the war, we'll be talking about a draft. Of course the American public isn't going to go for that, so we'll have expended that many more lives for naught. All on the Republicans' plates.

It's not going to be pretty.

[lpbk2713]

4. BushCo's lust for oil and regional domination got us in over our heads.

Wanting to please Poppy was a factor as well.

Then there is always the 'bad intelligence' angle. And to me, the best possible description of 'bad intelligence' simply means the CinC is not very bright, that is to say he's deficient in mental capacity.