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By Jackson Diehl | Monday, September 10, 2007 | The Washington Post

President Bush promised a kind of “breathing space” to be provided by the ‘Surge’, but his desired outcome in Iraq – a unified, working single government – is further away than ever. What’s really happening is that Iraqis are slowly moving toward the solution their politicians first outlined in their constitution two years ago despite stiff American resistance. This is a loose confederation of at least three self-governing regions, each with its own government, courts and security forces; and a weak federal government whose main function will be redistributing oil revenue so that each region gets a share based roughly on its proportion of the population…BS

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