Well, now he sounds like a flip-flopper.....can't trust them with our national security!

And once again the Bushie repubs turn the truth upside down.
We never said 'stay the course'. All truth is relative for the Karl Rove, Catholic, Repubs all of whom are relativists, truth being relative to their beliefs and not at all to reality.

No wonder these people see nothing wrong with the torture legislation or the erosion of our civil liberties confirmed in our Constitution and given to all humans by God.

But, of course, the question of "breaking Iraq up" into separate states should be answered by the people living there, yet, of course, this will never happen--Bush and Co are too busy staying the course (as in inflating the price of oil).
Says Dr. Cordesman, "Many Middle East experts are horrified by the difficulty of dividing the nation. Fifty-three percent of the population live in four cities and three of them are mixed."
Still, no one has the "right" to force another to submit to his religious views. Although sure, if the majority votes to enforce this or that ban...
For the rest, extend Baghdad's Green Zone to encompass the entire city, put "bomb smiffing" stations at all entrances (such are commonly used at docks, where there is much cargo to "test.").
After all, it's far better to relocate people than for all the killing and chaos to continue unabated.
Meanwhile, when considering the cost of such a mass displacement, consider how Iraq's former finance minister told "60 Minutes" that of the 1.2 BILLION allocated for arms for the Iraqi army, $400 million was spent on outdated equipment that is in such poor shape it cannot be used, while the rest of the money was simply stolen by former officials...