Well, the bipartisan Iraq Study Group has issued its report on the situation, and the news is pretty grim, at least if we were to continue on the current path:
The thing is, although the news is not what you want to hear, I actually find it refreshing to finally be openly having this discussion -- pretending that everything is going along just fine and squelching any debate for fear of political fallout has only allowed the situation to deteriorate. Finally, someone has openly said what we have all known for many months now -- that Iraq is a complete mess and we have to change our course -- and now we can do something about it.
The thing is, although the news is not what you want to hear, I actually find it refreshing to finally be openly having this discussion -- pretending that everything is going along just fine and squelching any debate for fear of political fallout has only allowed the situation to deteriorate. Finally, someone has openly said what we have all known for many months now -- that Iraq is a complete mess and we have to change our course -- and now we can do something about it.
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