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Mission Creep

1. Editors’ Introduction: You Break It, You Buy It

2. Out Now, Ask Questions Later?: Six Challenges for Antiwar Activists

The Next President’s Problem

3. Exiting Iraq: Now or Never?

4. The Logistics of Moving the Military Out of Iraq

5. Four Post-Occupation Scenarios

Iraq’s Sectarian Breakdown

6. Civil War: Inevitable or Not?

7. The Coming Iraqi Exodus

8. Why the U.S. May Not Leave Iraq

9. Al Qaeda in Iraq: How Dangerous Is It?

Miracle in Ramadi?

10. Damned if We Do: America’s Moral Obligations

How the War Has Affected a Typical Iraqi Family

11. A Glossary of Iraq Lingo

12. Charts and Maps

13. Interviews

Reporting: In Mother Jones‘ Washington, D.C., bureau: Nick Baumann, Bruce Falconer, Laura Rozen, Daniel Schulman, and Jonathan Stein; in Mother Jones‘ San Francisco office: Kiera Butler, Leigh Ferrara, Elizabeth Gettelman, Josh Harkinson, Neha Inamdar, Nicole McClelland, Celia Perry, Rafael Valero, and Daniel Widome. Edited by Dave Gilson.