Put on your 'Prognosticator's Hat' and tell us what happens if the Maliki Govt dissolves??

[Blackhatjack]

Will we still own it because we broke it?

Will we leave?

How will this story end?

[jimshoes]

1. Dead Eye and Chimpy

will tell us all it is a sign of progress and it will get better in about six months. Give war a chance.

[liberal N proud]

2. Do we have control of the oil yet?

bu$h will escalate and surge and expand the war until he has his cronies grubby little hands in the oil

[leftofthedial]

3. pretty much nothing

much less efficient graft

otherwise, they are irrelevant anyway

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. bush will appoint an iraq tsar.

[Buzz Clik]

5. We stay until Bush is out of office. Maybe longer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. The civil war will pick up force

[terisan]

7. Saudis, Turks, Inranians will prepare to move in. We will not get the oil ...

Bush/Cheney will be impeached and will resign after Bush pardons himself and his henchmen. Bush will make statement joking about what a bunch of suckers and cowards Americans are (as he boards Rev. Moon's private jet enroute to Paraguay). Military will begin orderly retreat from Iraq. Women of Iraq, once free, will live in misery.We will be left to pay the Bush bills and reflect upon our national debt, upon our worthless dollar, and upon what fools we mortals be.

[catmandu57]

10. That's pretty much how I've got it figured

A belated welcome, I think you've got it nailed.

[skul_Donteecha]

8. There will be a feeding frenzy if Maliki's Gov't falls.

Doing the feeding will be the various Islamic Mullahs and their followers, each seeking power they feel is due them. The Sunnis and the Shiites will escalate their current battling and whatever progress that may have occurred will be lost and our guys will be caught in the middle.

Iraq teeters on the edge of catastrophy and it wont take much to send it over the cliff as if it had not already fallen.

[acmavm]

9. I agree with you up to a point. Then I need an explanation on

something...

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...and whatever progress that may have occurred will be lost...

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What progress, pray tell, would that be?

[newyawker99]

12. Hi skul_Donteecha!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[OHdem10]

11. We might have to try to set up another government

and start over.

Do I like this. No No No

At this point, IMO we are there to hold the Middle East together.
When we took out Saddam, this increased Iran"s Power. The Suni
countries, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt etc are very unhappy.
The Suni's have maintained reign over the Region for eons.
Really what is going on is a Middle East Struggle and not
just Iraq. As long as we are in the Region Iran is more
restrained.

When MCCain says we will be there for years--our National Interest
requires this.

When Hilary says that she will leave a small contingent of troops.
in Iraq --not in Combat.

These are the most serious contenders for the WH. I listen.
If there was a way, each of these would jump at the chance to
get out of Iraq.

We have years of agreements with Saudis and others in the Middle
East. These cannot be ignored.

Therefore, I hope Maliki gets a move on and we can bring most
of our troops home.

[Mr. Ected]

13. I Pray For the Poor Iraqi People

Perhaps Saddam Hussein was no Bill Clinton.

But it was George W. Bush who lit a match and started this conflagration. Not Hussein.

We worry so much about getting our soldiers home. They should never have gone in the first place.

But if Maliki's government fails...and it IS destined to fail...then God save the poor helpless Iraqis caught in the crossfire.

Damn you Bush.

[Annces]

14. The UN will come in for a couple of years

and then the CIA will install another dictator.