THIS is what we feared. This is what we tried to tell people would happen, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. It's bad enough that thousands of Iraqi's have been massacred, would still be alive today if the United States had let the inspections continue. But the massacre has really only begun. Now there is massive civil unrest as a tremendously outnumbered occupational force tries to gain control, so far with little success. Don't believe that the celebrating in the streets in Iraq has anything to do with the Iraqis' expectations that things are now going to get better (heck, people will party for almost any reason, right?). Probably before summer Iran, Syria, the Kurds and maybe Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will become enmeshed in a multi-front, multi-national regional civil war that will result in so many more deaths and injuries and hate and corruption... It will be impossible for the U.S. to adequately control this and we will end up retreating a la Vietnam. What was this war good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.