We wanted (the Sunnis) to mobilize politically, but we certainly didn't want them to mobilize politically against the constitution.

The constitution is not only a disaster for a lot of the people who share the secular democratic perspective, whether Sunni, Shiite or Kurdish. It's also leading to some version of a sharia state . . . not necessarily a theocracy but certainly a state where there is a dominant role for Muslim clerics.

Engineering, this is ops! Status report!

I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.

An abrupt end to the U.S. military presence would probably lead to an upsurge of violence among Iraqis and offer new opportunities for terrorists, but this does not excuse the absence of a new strategy for orderly disengagement.

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