[paleocon patriarch]

The biggest mistake in Iraq is trying to keep it as "Iraq", a badly grouped nation that needs to be partitioned into natural ethnic lines, with the Kurds getting the northern oilfields.

Maintaining the borders of Iraq is failing to admit a mistake the British made at the fall of the Ottoman empire.

[patriciaruth]

The biggest mistake in Iraq is trying to keep it as "Iraq", a badly grouped nation that needs to be partitioned into natural ethnic lines,

Absolutely not our business. It is for the Iraqis themselves to decide after they get themselves a census, a constituion and an election and learn to provide their own security.

Then if they want to have a Civil War (like we had) after we've gone and left them to their own devices, it's their problem.