Anybody have a snorkel?
Sounds like the U.S. is in a teeny bit over our heads.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq grappled with looting and civil disorder, scattered gun fights, the brutal murder of a Shi'ite religious leader in a holy shrine and a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, which shattered much of the euphoria that had marked the end of Saddam Hussein's rule.

As reality set in following Wednesday's wild celebrations, the United States also faced political complications with Turkey after Kurdish fighters took the northern city of Kirkuk in a bloodless rout of Iraqi forces.
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The details of the murder of the two (not one) clerics recounted in other articles are particularly gruesome. They were "hacked" to death, at what was expected to be a peaceful reconciliation. Not pretty. According to some accounts, at least one journalist was invited to the mosque to bear witness to the get-together. The reporter had to flee to safety when the "reconciliation" erupted into violence.

Say what you will about Clinton's quick-and-easy zipper action (a private concern between him, Hillary and whomever, as far as I'm concerned), he was an unusually intelligent man. Not a charge you can level at Bush. Clinton and his administration recognized their limitations when it came to understanding the Middle East. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, et al. suffer from a severe case of hubris. Unfortunately, it's the little people who will suffer the blowback.