Presumptive Democratic nominee for President John Kerry has eloquently described the current mess in Iraq as "the greatest failure in judgement and diplomacy" he has ever seen in his entire political career.
What then must honest American leaders of all stripes do to facilitate the extraction of our country's army from this miasma "honorably", while giving the Iraqi people a reasonable chance at a decent and possibly democratic future?
My suggestion to those leaders is that the only thing possible now to save Iraq is to call for the current administration to admit that their policies have been a collosal failure and to ask the entire civilized world for help, without precondition.
What we need now to save Iraq is nothing less than a summit of all the principal European and Middle Eastern leaders, along with the US and Canadien governments, organized under the auspices of the United Nations, dedicated to finding, funding and ensuring a morally defensible outcome in Iraq.
The Iraqi Governing Council should be disbanded, and a new (Chalabi free) Congress of Iraqi Leaders convened to work jointly with all the world's great powers to determine the structure of a new and prosperous Iraq. The war profiteers should be sent home, including the mercenaries, and the Iraqi people should be put to work rebuilding their own country.
None of this will happen until Bush either has a Pauline conversion or is summarily thrown out of office.