Now, exactly how does one nation "negotiate" a treaty with another nation if the second nation has troops marching up and down its streets, bombing its cities, shooting its citizens, with even its mercenary civilian armies killing Iraqis at will, completely unaccountable to local authorities? This is as much "negotiating" as one does with someone holding a gun to their head.

Mostly because all this activity is primarily happening only inside your brain.

There are something like 25 to 35 times as many Iraqi civilians being killed right now by al Qaeda and the like than by Coalition forces, and the latter are accidents. You think the Iraqis are too stupid to notice that even if Americans aren't?

I know why you don't go to look for yourself. You don't want the information.

You're clinging desperately to something here. It would be fascinating to know what.