Apparently, we're facing a disastrous forced retreat as early as this summer from Iraq. Where do I get such extreme information . . . I watched the Iraq hearings on C-SPAN last week . . . that's what the generals are saying.

General Petraeus is testifying this week. Look at Nancy Pelosi's or General Michael Hayden's face . . . they are beginning to sweat. They don't know what to do. The giant chicken is coming home to roost.

Its possible the retreat could turn into one big black hawk down.

I think their hope was that this would happen on the next president's watch . . . sociopaths.

Katrina opened people's minds to the vast difference between what is being broadcast and what is actually happening on the ground . . .

If the U.S. were to announce the beginning of a complete withdrawal and a time table and start it immediately, 95% of Iraqis would help facilitate it peacefully.

At the same time they would be preparing for the final phase of the ongoing civil war. They, and the Iranians, would love nothing more than for us to get out of the way and let them sort it out for themselves and have complete control over their oil and their future. These are a very intelligent and wise people with an ancient culture who have been dealing with foreigners messing in their business for longer than the U.S. has been around. The totally corrupt Saudi Royals, on the other hand, would love the U.S. to stay forever and pass the stolen Iraqi oil on to them as they get a very nice cut on the deal.

The argument that "we'll get destroyed if we try to leave now" is just one more cover story for staying forever and stealing their oil.

Everyone of my friends from that area of the world agrees with me on this, btw.

The Iraqis cannot possibly resolve their problems permanently while occupied, this is politics 101.

The entire point of the invasion was to create instability justifying indefinite occupation facilitating massive oil theft and other profiteering combined with the need to maintain the status of the U.S. petrodollar (which Saddam was threatening).

The fastest way to bring U.S. heat down on you is to threaten the status of the U.S. dollar, just ask the Iranians and the Venezuelans.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

The Iraqis have lost over a million people. They have seen their most holy mosques bombed by "Al CIADuh". They believe in revenging the loss of their loved ones. Most of the moderate Iraqis have fled the country.

What I saw in the faces of the members of the senate and the military was fear. Don't listen to their words, look into their eyes.

Peace.