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[somedaybitch]

"...However this war started, however badly it has been managed, however much you wish we were not there, do not kid yourself that this is not what it is about: people who want to hold a free and fair election to determine their own future, opposed by a virulent nihilistic minority that wants to prevent that. That is all that the insurgents stand for...."

you can read the rest of Thomas Friedman's article here

update: here's an interesting blog by a jag officer stationed in iraq.