Congratulations on your appointment and your assessment.
I also wish to point to a strategically placed peace initiative now brewing that must be well funded, indicating not only anti-war/Bush sentiment, but perhaps something else: party politicking, and, worse, infiltration. See Sperry's work; I am high on his words right now.
I also wish to add that the neat triangulation of Syria, Iran and Saudi place Iraq in that spot on a newborn's head that must be protected at all costs.
We will be having this thing one way or another for a very long time. They question is how much control we actually want over our own futures, individually, and, as a nation.