Rolling Stone: What Next? [Iraq]

[grytpype]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=6185043&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7

What Next?

RS convenes a panel of experts to discuss what went wrong in Iraq

By AMANDA GRISCOM

At the end of 2002, as the Bush administration prepared to invade Iraq, Rolling Stone convened a panel of experts to assess the march to war. Things have since gone far worse than most imagined. There is no evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- the rationale used to justify the invasion. The fighting continues to escalate long after Bush declared "mission accomplished," and the White House tried to ignore the abuse and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. As the U.S. prepares to hand over control to an interim Iraqi government, we reconvened key members of our panel, along with some new experts, to examine the current situation in Iraq. What went wrong -- and what should we do now?

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It looks like the author just rounded up a bunch of quotes from various people including Zinni, Clarke, and Biden. Not a whole lot new here for people who have been following the story, but I found this interesting:

Biden: It would be strategic suicide if America withdrew anytime soon. I meet regularly with a group of seven four-star generals about Iraq; each one says we don't have enough force protection to even withdraw in an orderly fashion. It could be a bloodbath on the way out, and hasten civil war.

[hadrons]

1. that is interesting and something I wouldn't have thought of ...

of course, I did think enough to know this invasion was a bad idea