I really love your grasp of unreality. You said:

>"clean up the mess and bring the rest of the troops home, before May 1st."

As good as this sounds, it is not on the mind of any military planner, any Dept of State agenda, or any rational thinker.

Unless, or course, your reference is for May 1st five years from now.

The re-building of re-organization of Iraq society will take many years and many billions of dollars. Take a little dose of reality along with your dram of artificial testosterone.

Just as we will be involved with Afghanistan for many years and billions, so will we be with Iraq.

The reaction of the rest of the Islamic world is an unknown and cannot be judged at this time, but I doubt they will interpret the attack and invasion of Iraq as a liberation.

Publius