[maryz]

Yes as much as it pains me to say it and my Mom said it yesterday we probably would have been better off if we had followed Joe’s idea of a loose coalition of 3 states.

Apparently the idea of forcibly yoking the three separate parts of present-day Iraq was originally that of one Gertrude Bell. (I happened to be rereading the Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series and saw reference to her there -- it wasn't just something I happened to know!)

[DIRTYSECRET]

saye do what?