Despite rosy pictures and victory claims from Bush and Allawi,
Iraq is FUBAR by any standard, including Bush's own military who recently issued the report below.
Yahoo! News - US military intelligence issue pessimistic report on Fallujah offensive
The assessment, distributed to senior Marine and Army officers in Iraq, also said that despite the heavy fighting with coalition forces, the insurgents would continue to increase in number, carrying out attacks and fomenting unrest in the area
It also appears to contradict the US government's victorious account of the US-led fight against insurgents in Fallujah and other parts of northern Iraq.
Although the resistance crumbled in the face of the offensive, the report warned, "the enemy will be able to effectively defeat I MEF's ability to accomplish its primary objectives of developing an effective Iraqi security force and setting the conditions for successful Iraqi elections.
US army chief General Richard Myers said in an interview that civil war could erupt in Iraq after forthcoming elections link
Hearts & Minds shot to pieces
More on the Marine Intel Report
The pessimistic analysis was prepared by intelligence officers in the First Marine Expeditionary Force, or I MEF, last weekend as the offensive in Falluja was winding down, the daily said.
Senior military officials in Iraq and Washington disputed the findings of the report, describing it as a subjective judgement of some Marines that did not reflect the views of all intelligence officials and commanders in Iraq
Fallujah Net Results
Despite loosing 100 soldiers, making November 2004 rank 2nd in US. Deaths since the war started, the key objective of winning back the moderate Iraqis support of US was a failure and Zarqawi and other insurgent leaders were able to escape.
Instead of winning hearts and minds, Fallujah saw the execution of a wounded POW and a humanitarian disaster. Through the camera lens and independent media, Muslims and the rest of the world learn that typhoid is spreading in "ghost town" Fallujah and that US warplanes, tanks and mortars have left a shattered landscape of gutted buildings, crushed cars and charred bodies.
Rumors around the Iraq towns tell tales of Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah , of a doctor who witnessed the US and Iraqi National Guard raid the general hospital and of Shooting a family of five as they swim across a river
Is it any wonder even US' top army chief fears Civil War ?
Yahoo! News - Civil war possible after Iraq elections: US' top soldier
"Civil war is still a possibility. We know that there are forces for whom this is an objective," Myers said, adding: "We have not yet any signs that this will happen."
The upcoming elections, pencilled in for January, are seen as a major test of the shattered country's recovery. Myers predicted there would be more violence before the elections rather than afterwards. A wave of insurgent violence continues to sweep Iraq ahead of the polls with many cities under curfew and a state of emergency declared in much of the country
Myers was unfazed by recent declarations that several countries were planning to withdraw their troops from Iraq. "The most important question is not the figures, it's the fact that NATO should be involved, that the United Nations be involved and that the European Union be involved in providing an economic aid
Good Luck getting that NATO involvement with Condi & Rummie doing the US diplomacy!