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Also in the Washington Post:

"There is a problem with saying that we need to get the Iraqis to take charge of the situation," said Eliot A. Cohen, a professor of military strategy at Johns Hopkins University. "By virtue of the kind of government we helped create -- particularly one based on proportional representation -- and because the institutions of the Iraqi state are weak, even if we can get him to promise, we cannot reasonably expect him to deliver much."

Of course, this was not BushCheney's original plan. Originally, he was just going to hand Iraq to Ahmad Chalabai and scoot. So easy. Home by July. But then those pesky Iraqis got in the way.

You know the rest.