"Never from your hands" - said by an Arab to me, in 2003
No more americans need die in Iraq.
With today's events, if it spins out as it appears, that Iraqi police themselves, being infiltrated with murderers and terrorists, carried out the event calculated to re-engage the descent into Iraq as Somalia/Bosnia/Gaza/Magdeburgian hell, we can see that if the thing can be won, it can be won only by american troops, and for american purposes, and will never be kept by Iraqis.
The Iraqis cannot or will not get it together enough to make a nation they themselves can govern TODAY. When they recognize that as a nation they have to organize to KILL these monsters of mutant DNA, they CAN make a nation. But that day is not today, or tomorrow.
We should WITHDRAW (I refuse to use the redeploy fig leaf) to Kurdistan. We should build, as in Korea, tripwire bases, and leave 40-50k men. Armed to the teeth 
and ready to slaughter.
I also want to comment on Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi's gleeful comment today.
"As many had forseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results," the two leaders wrote.
"The increase in US forces has had little impact in curbing the violence or fostering political reconciliation.
"It has not enhanced Americas national security. The unsettling reality is that instances of violence against Iraqis remain high and attacks on US forces have increased.
"In fact, the last two months of the war were the deadliest to date for US troops."
You are an embarassment to all Americans who want to do well and right in this world.
You are an affront to the forces of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abe Lincoln, FDr and Harry Truman
You are awash in the need for partisan victory so badly that you will trade that victory for the defeat of American purposes, and the retreat of freedoms under the foot of terrorists whose purpose is to destroy the dissent you used, wherever they find it.
You have made yourself into the functional allies of those forces.
You make me ashamed.
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