that was a lot of reading... interesting, and a very welcome change to have things just laid out like that.

i also saw something quite interesting about the war in iraq, the links are below.

video
http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200704/r139369_477472.asx

transcript
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/conte...7/s1904848.htm

It gives a good insight in to the two very bad options that are left for the US in Iraq.