In the first place, within the candidates who were allowed to run and then not arrested and tortured, among the chosen few left, there is bound to be some who take more of some stand or another than others.

Makes sense, doesn't it?

And, in the end, after the CIA is through paying them, they will all take a pro-Bush position. For one, to keep the money coming. For two, to stay in office. If the US left, they'd have their problems.

No surprises so far.

Second, you might not want to make predictions for me, anyway.

Two I will make is that after the honeymoon is over, there will be a civil war. And the Kurds will have a de facto nation of their own.

By the way, "Iraqi Special Forces" are Kurds, who are as Iraqi as Cubans are Americans. They still don't have non-Iraqis fighting Iraqis.

Arf