Many more innocent people are going to die because no American president will be able to walk away from this mess. There will be civil war, and chaos spreading to the entire region if we do, and they'll just keep fighting us if we don't.

With no good end. A quagmire.

Post all the feelgood blogs you want, it's a mess with innocent people suffering. And it was predicted this would happen. By about everyone except American neo-cons.

By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent

"It is a telling indication of the problems in Iraq that the US State Department wants to switch money earmarked for water, sewage and electricity improvements to the training of Iraqi security forces.

"Attention is switching from long-term infrastructure to the immediate needs of security and stability."