When Shia, Kurd and Sunni are slaughtering each other on the streets wholesale (you have not seen anything yet!), or when General fighting breaks out between 'Kurdistan' and the Turks, or when Iran and Saudi Arabia start lobbing Short Range missiles and air strikes at each others assets, or when Israel launches air strikes into Iran, or when (god help us all) Pakistan falls to a Theocracy and goes to war with India, or when Syria marches right back into Lebanon, or when some thug takes back over in whats left of Iraq (which will likely be just the Sunni triangle) and starts making Saddam look like a snuggly little kitten, or when a full scale genocidal proxy war erupts between Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia erupts in the carcass of Iraq....

Then you can have the solace of telling all the people in the middle east and Iraq that, well, there was "genocide" and "regional war" before the failed policies of Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Make sure you put it in scare quotes. I'm sure they will really enjoy that. Almost as much as America will positively love their shiny new $20/gallon Gasoline and daily scheduled blackouts.

Mark my words. I'm pretty sure at least a subset of the above will transpire within 2 years of us leaving Iraq- and I'm equally sure you will turn right around and blame whatever liberals your masters tell you to. You will even tell me this would have happened sooner and 'worser' if we hadn't made each and every choice we made. In fact, I expect you to ask that in reply to this post. Ooops! Busted ya! Yer mouse was already hovering over the reply button, wasn't it!?

Yeti