Iraq update

While our focus is being shifted to the tsunami, Iraq is moving closer and closer to "elections".

Zarqawi may have been captured, though the military should deny that for a few weeks while they "chat" with him.

5 Americans have been killed in Iraq today, as well as the Governor of Baghdad. It's true that most of the Iraqi provinces are much more prepared for the elections than the ones around Baghdad, elections and laws only work when people are willing to live within their constraints and there are forces willing and able to apply them.

At this point, it looks like the US military will be the only force applying law and order in Iraq for the very foreseeable future. How many more Marines have to die before we leave and let the virtually inevitable civil war occur?

Can Christian soldiers achieve peace between Sunni muslims and Shia muslims at the barrel of a gun by giving them "elections" whose results are basically a foregone conclusion?