`No hope` left in Iraq, expert says

Nir Rosen, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Asia Times and now a freelance writer, spent time with Shiite firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and individuals involved with the Sunni insurgency in central Iraq.

'All it`s going to take is an assassination attempt or another mosque bombing,' he said. 'I no longer think that there is any hope for national reconciliation.'

The conflict could grow to destabilize the entire region, Rosen said. 'The civil war in Iraq is going to spread in the region and the idea of the Iraqi nation state will cease to be a relevant concept,' he said.

The bombing of the al-Askariya , or Golden Mosque in Samara on Feb. 22 was a turning point, Rosen said. 'I think there`s no hope.'

http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc512101.html

And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation.
That was from Sept. 2003 BTW.

To destabilize the ME? Mission Accomplished!