[mburbank]

I sincerely believe it's not to late to dig out of this mess. If W. looses the next election (and if everyone who wants this works for it, it's far from impossible), the next President repudiates at very least the manner in which W has presented America and makes a sincere good faith effort to rebuild Iraq without an eye toward control or profit and works on an Israeli/palestinian peace accord with seriousness instead of flippancy, contempt and lip service everything could be turned around AND saddam Hussein would be gone in the bargain.

I even hold out the possability that people besides the current Iraq Hawks will somehow hold the attention of our play dough current president and convince him that the State Department should steer the peace now that the Pentagon had the War. The next two years may well prove to be the most critical juncture in American History, and I don't say that lightly.