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Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible

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Let the Swift Boating begin:

Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible

By TARIQ PANJA
The Associated Press
Monday, November 20, 2006; 12:44 AM


LONDON -- Military victory is no longer possible in Iraq, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in a television interview broadcast Sunday.

Kissinger presented a bleak vision of Iraq, saying the U.S. government must enter into dialogue with Iraq's regional neighbors _ including Iran _ if progress is to be made in the region.

"If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Kissinger: Iraq Military Win Impossible - washingtonpost.com
 
The ideologs are out, the realists are in. Only through the realization of the realities can we even begin to expect success of any kind.
 
Iraqi peace will be made by the influence of the middle-eastern countries, not by America.
 
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