Still No Way Out in Iraq - NYT

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/30/opinion/30fri1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

"Without a serious effort at national conciliation, American troops are just holding down the lid on a pressure cooker. Iraq’s rival militias, the insurgents, the bitter sectarian resentments and the meddling neighbors haven’t gone anywhere. Consider this all too familiar horror: yesterday, police said they pulled six bodies from the Tigris River about 25 miles south of Baghdad. They were handcuffed and showed signs of having been tortured. And five, including a child, had been beheaded.

Perhaps 160,000 American troops could hold down the overall casualty numbers indefinitely, but they cannot wipe away that sort of hatred"...


Despite recent gains, it is still an absolute mess & one that the Republican candiates for POTUS want to continue...