well, you can always have hope that the US and its coalition forces will be defeated as reported by the liberal (McClatchy Newspapers) MSM but the report I read is that muqqie is hiding in Iran and Maliki is wiping out his army so, in the next few days we shall see which report is correct I always say it is a big mistake to bet against the US military -- they do not intend that these Iraqi forces fail on their first big challenge but like I say, you can always hope