"Serious talk of Baghdad being divided into east and west. We are extremely worried."

that familiar flushing sound you hear is an entire presidential administration suddenly unclogging and rushing down the pipe into the septic tank of history...

"Iraq as a political project is finished," a top government official told Reuters -- anonymously because the coalition of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki remains committed in public to a U.S.-sponsored constitution preserving Iraq's unity.

"The parties have moved to Plan B," the official said, saying Sunni, ethnic Kurdish and majority Shi'ite blocs were looking at ways to divide power and resources and to solve the conundrum of Baghdad's mixed population of seven million.

"There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into east and west," said the official, who has long been a proponent of the present government's objectives. "We are extremely worried."

wasn't it colin powell who said, "you break it, you own it...?"

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