A timetable for withdrawal is the only way Iraqis will settle their problems...
Right now the US military IS the problem...and acts as a unifying force that ALL Iraqis can hate.
A TIMETABLE WILL MOTIVATE THE IRAQIS TO FIGURE THINGS OUT...
A full scale civil war is unlikely, since no side really wants to rule the other,...they just want to seperate from the other!
It would be like a US Civil War wherein the North agreed that the South should leave, and the North wanted out of the agreement as well!
Do the Shia want to rule in Baghdad? Or the Kurds? Perhaps only with the US Army gaurding their backs! But of course they will always cash our checks! Just like the "exlie groups" did!
Yes, there will be "ethnic cleansing" just like we allowed in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia!
Perhaps the Kurds will allow a permanent US base in the new independant Kurdistan...to gaurd the beloved oil wells...(and make sure women can vote! LOL)
A time table for withdrawal will allow the Iraqis to figure out What Comes Next. The country will divide, or perhaps not. New leadership will evolve and within a year we'll know who to write our oil import checks to...
And yes, they will still be against Israeli annexation of Palestinian Land! SORRY NEOCONS!
