As always, a good report SandRat. A question that bothers me, and most americans who will vote nov 7 : when does it end? The military war in iraq was over in 3 short weeks, over 4 years ago, and it still drags on and on and on. To many it's become a vietnam quagmire. Do you remember the vietcong body count equation : $250,000 average to kill each one? With the space program and LBJ's(idiotic)war on poverty it broke the US bank. Obviously we have a religious war/culture clash over there, the long term solution could never be purely military. 300 years ago it took the warring catholics and protestants in europe 30 years to finally figure out that violence is not the answer to religious differences, now catholic and protestant churches sit across the street, at peace with each other, all over america. Are we looing at 30 years of sectarian war in iraq for shia/sunni/kurds to be at peace with each other, and us? That's just too long guys, to keep pouring BILLIONS into just this one country's infrastructure....too long.
I wish I had that crystal ball information.