That this is what the administration is going to propose.
Olbermann mentioned it very briefly tonite.
And just checking on the news - one more time - wink - and came across this:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=85111The strategist notes that the administration is simultaneously moving toward a second longtime Democratic goal - of allowing a "soft partition" of Iraq at a time when national political reconciliation seems impossible. This soft-partition approach is inherent in Petraeus' "bottom-up" alliance with Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar Province, which is the big success he and Ambassador Ryan Crocker will report. The consistent champion of this idea of bottom-up devolution of power has been Democratic Senator Joseph Biden. So that's a "yes," too, if the Democrats choose to accept it.
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Then there is this - written by a repub talking head:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070907/OPINION03/709070308/1007/rss07Iraqis are partitioning their own country -- we might as well go along
It took political Washington a good six months to catch up to the fact that something significant was happening in Iraq's Anbar province, where the former-insurgent Sunni tribes switched sides and joined the fight against al-Qaeda. Not surprisingly, Washington has not yet caught up to the next reality: Iraq is being partitioned -- and, like everything else in Iraq today, it is happening from the ground up.
Joe Biden, Peter Galbraith, Leslie Gelb and many other thoughtful scholars and politicians have long been calling for partition. The problem is how to make it happen. Top-down partition by some new constitutional arrangement ratified on parchment is swell, but how does that get enforced any more than the other constitutional dreams that were supposed to have come about in Iraq?
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What an emotional rollercoaster these last two days has been!