from your post <<Independent analysts, such as Anthony Cordesman of the conservative Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, have long warned that active opposition by the Shiite population would doom the occupation and make Iraq ungovernable.>> I guess thoughts like this are not permitted to reach GW's eyes as the chit-chat is George gets upset with ideas that don't agree with his 'macho bring em on' deep think , ahem, choke, choke, 'brilliance'.;)WL
He played his video game night and day.
The MAZE of Death.
But that is the game we all are in, the trick, don't believe it.Get above it all and imagine nothing is what it seems.Kill the machine.otraque