What will be the next "milestone" justifying continued Iraq occupation,

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

and the associated deaths and maiming on both sides, now that the glorious election is over? :shrug:

We've already had

"End of major fighting"
"Transfer of sovereignty"

and now this.

[kcwayne]

1. Bush's limo runs out of gas on the way to a fundraiser?

[EVDebs]

2. We've built all these bases in the region, and geez it would be a shame to

see them all going to waste."

[greyXstar]

3. Next will be the civil war that breaks out...

when the Sunnis don't get representation in the constituion, and the Kurds don't agree to an Islamic theocracy.

[googly]

4. We liberated Germany what 60 years ago? Kosovo 6 years ago?

Japan 60 years ago? Korea 50 years ago?

And guess what we still have troops in Germany, Kosovo,
Okinawa, South Korea. Don't see why we won't have a small
no. of troops in Iraq for 6-10 years.

[firebee]

5. Come on now people... Use your heads!!!

We have to stay in Iraq and protect the new Iraqi government from Iran and Syria because Iran and Syria are capable of overthrowing Iraq until Iraq has a big enough military to protect itself. After a while, all the car bombings and terrorist attacks will be blamed on Iran and Syria because all the Iraqi people are free and happy. Since Iran and Syria are imminent threats to our military in Iraq, we'll be forced to declare war on them because they are a direct threat to the safety of our soldiers and the nation of Iraq.

This is the scenario Bushco is trying to run. It's called cornering the oil market.

[googly]

7. Why not add S. Arabia and Kuwait to that list?

That will make us Emporers of Oil.

[Taxloss]

6. Referendum on constitution in October, another election in December.

They're more important than this one; especially the referendum.

[tabasco]

8. A sincere request by the Iraqi people for the US ...

to continue occupying their country. Our hand-picked puppet won an amazing victory so he will officially requisition that the US continue to occupy his country and guard the oil.

I wonder what happened to those 100,000 fully-trained Iraqi police that Bush talked about in the debates?