[Alberta's Child]

If we stick to time-tables and don't effect a solid government before we leave, this will all have been for nought.

1. Yes, we are going to stick to time-tables.

2. And yes, this was all for nought.

[DoughtyOne]

Well for your sake and the sake of the future of the United States, I hope you are wrong. If the United States does not install a viable government in Iraq, then the war on terrorism is lost. There will be no eradication of terrorists. There will be no peace in the middle-east or outside of it. And that means your local neighborhood will become a terrorist zone, with restaurants, theaters, grocery stores and the like experincing the same bombings that Israel has experienced for decades.

This is for keeps.