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http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1030-29.htm

A letter winner in cheerleading at Andover and Yale, the president knows how tough it is to keep spirits up when it becomes clear that his team is not winning, but the bedlam in Iraq has become the supreme test.

Nice! .. On withdrawal..

..[We must] publicly disavow any intention of having permanent—or as the Pentagon now prefers to say “enduring” — military bases in Iraq. Publicly disavow any intention of having special rights over the oil under the sands of Iraq. (These.. steps will be difficult for the Bush administration, since those aims formed the bulk of the motivation for attacking and occupying Iraq)..and TALK. Yes, talk… The Arab League states have shown themselves eager to facilitate such discussions. Indeed, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did precisely that in October 2005, when he invited all interested states and factions to a meeting in Cairo. The U.S. boycotted those talks, and made it difficult for its clients in Baghdad to attend… Then—and only then—we can expect the Arab League countries, the United Nations, the Western Europeans, Indians, Pakistanis and others to do what they can to facilitate our withdrawal… Why? Because they like us? No… They will help because most of them have even more interest than we in a more stable Iraq—and just as much interest as we in the oil there.

Electric car anyone?…anyone?
-MAB