We are, in fact, in the mother of all pickle barrels. Justin Raimondo if anything understates the case in his current posting: "The invasion and occupation of Iraq is turning out to have been the worst idea in the history of American foreign policy, far stupider than the Vietnam debacle, and potentially even more destructive and futile than our entry into World War I." <http://www.antiwar.com/justin/>
It doesn't look like it will be long before Paul Bremer & Associates decamp Baghdad like the US diplomatic staff vamoosed from Saigon way back when -- from the embassy roof via helicopter.
Carl
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