From Reuters, 5/17/07:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSKIM74750720070517

Iraq is on the verge of collapse: report

By Ibon Villelabeitia

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -

Iraq's government has lost control of vast areas to powerful local
factions and the country is on the verge of collapse and
fragmentation, a leading British think-tank said on Thursday.

Chatham House also said there was not one civil war in Iraq, but
"several civil wars" between rival communities, and accused Iraq's
main neighbors -- Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- of having reasons
"for seeing the instability there continue."

"It can be argued that Iraq is on the verge of being a failed state
which faces the distinct possibility of collapse and fragmentation,"
it said in a report.

"The Iraqi government is not able to exert authority evenly or
effectively over the country. Across huge swathes of territory, it is
largely irrelevant in terms of ordering social, economic and political
life."

The report also said that a U.S.-backed security crackdown in Baghdad
launched in February has failed to reduce overall violence across the
country, as insurgent groups have just shifted their activities
outside the capital.

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So what's Georgie's mission?

Harry

should have been watching his hands.
The "mission" of the war is NOT what he SAYS: the object of the war was,
has been, and IS -- to transfer the contents of the U.S. Treasury to
his supporters, the war profiteers; to enhance his "Unitary" powers,
and to dominate the oil resources of the middle east.
ALL THE REST IS MISDIRECTION -- SMOKE AND MIRRORS.
THE PEA WAS NEVER UNDER THE SHELL.. GET IT?