The Best Bad Option for Iraq?

—By Jonathan Stein

| Mon Oct. 8, 2007 9:00 AM PDT

If the U.S. can't achieve reconciliation of Iraq's national political parties, is our best option government by warlord?

I think it's very possible that in five years Iraq will be ruled by a Saddam Hussein clone. At least we know what Gulf War III will look like under President Giuliani.

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