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To: stockman_scott who wrote (219167)	2/19/2007 9:48:01 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

The prospects for a wider regional war are real in my view. For all practical purposes we have destroyed the country called Iraq. Whatever we do or don't do, it is unlikely that a country called Iraq is viable as a nation state at this point in time. We have two options -- lead the process of breaking it up or leave it to regional powers in a regional war. It is not clear why anybody would think we have the intelligence or political capital to lead the process of finishing what we started -- the destruction of Iraq -- unless of course we plan to do it by military means which simply requires that we 'stay the course' until hundreds of thousands and possibly millions more are dead. We could bring in regional powers, but of course Bush is incapable of that sort of thing and so this would have to wait at least for two more years. Alternatively we could withdraw now and let the regional powers have at it -- again at a terrible price in lost lives. Or we could raise the pressure on Bush to resign in disgrace -- but given his evident inability to grasp the scale and scope of his Presidential screw-ups it is unlikely he will ever recognize that he has disgraced himself and America. I think it would be more helpful at this point to demand Cheney's resignation as a first step towards policy change and replace him with Baker.