WaPo's SLATE's on-line news summary: >The internal staff report that the NY [TIMES] leads with is a province-by-province breakdown of the security, economy, and politics of the region—and it's far from rosy. The report rates the stability situation in a full one-third of Iraq's provinces as "serious"; in another it is "critical." Sectarian friction is reported as common in regions that American officials have called nonviolent. The report—not classified material—has been shown to some people on Capitol Hill but has not been widely distributed.<
It seems like our Noble and Wise Leaders do this again and again. They helped break up the old Yugoslavia, for example, creating a multi-sided civil war. This, of course, necessitated Our Enlightened Intervention... -- Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
