From a Los Angeles Times editorial, 3/8/06:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-ed-iraq08mar08,0,791352.story?coll=la-home-commentary
Now he tells us
GEORGE BUSH'S MAN IN BAGHDAD, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, was
refreshingly candid in an interview he granted this newspaper on
Monday.
Describing the situation in Iraq, he acknowledged that the United
States had opened a "Pandora's box" when it removed Saddam Hussein
from power, creating the potential for widespread sectarian violence
to lead to a civil war between Sunnis and Shiites.
Khalilzad's observation would have been obvious to anyone in Iraq in
the aftermath of the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra.
But because the Bush administration's spin machine has been so
relentless, it's noteworthy, sadly enough, to hear a top U.S. official
bluntly state what is clear to anyone else on the ground in Iraq.
Usually such candor from high-ranking administration officials --
about Iraq or anything else -- comes only after the word "former"
appears before their titles.
The ambassador's dire talk of a possible worst-case scenario in Iraq
that would make Taliban Afghanistan "look like child's play" is in
stark contrast to the president's consistently rosy platitudes about
the marvels of an emerging democracy on the Tigris.
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Caught in a civil war
2,304 American troops are dead, 16,910 have been wounded, tens of
thousands of innocent Iraqis are dead and wounded in deranged Bush's
insane war.
Harry
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