U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad goes way off the 'company line' "The top U.S. envoy to Iraq said Monday that the 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime had opened a "Pandora's box" of volatile ethnic and sectarian tensions that could engulf the region in all-out war if America pulled out of the country too soon. In remarks that were among the frankest and bleakest public assessments of the Iraq situation by a high-level American official, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the "potential is there" for sectarian violence to become full-blown civil war".The ambassador said what a lot of us have been saying all along. Removing Saddam Hussein from power would leave a huge power vacuum. Unfortunately the Bush administration and all the sheep that followed weren't savvy enough to realize that before their historic blunder. Most of these wingnuts had never heard of a Shiite, a Kurd or a Sunni. Stupid is as stupid does. Ambassador Khalilzad slipped up big-time and I'm sure he'll get a huge dressingdown from Condi or Bush real soon. Those in this administration best not stray from the company line. We were safer, had many more allies in the 'real' war on terror, had over 2,300 additional living young men and women, 17,000 less severely wounded and some $400 billion+ richer,.. with Saddam Hussein in power. Too bad we didn't have the right leadership, or fewer sheep, when it counted...
