Almost nothing the U.S. military can do

meanwhile, back in iraq, things are going swimmingly...

The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents.

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One Army officer summarized it as arguing that in Anbar province, "We haven't been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically -- and that's where wars are won and lost."

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[T]here are no functioning Iraqi government institutions in Anbar, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the province's most significant political force...

we're creating just what george, dick, don, karl, and the neocons want - an endless war that can be used to coax more civil liberties from u.s. citizens and gain a tighter hold on absolute power... good work, guys...

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