Impeachement requires a verifiable crime such as Clinton's lie under oath. Policy, agreed with or not is not impeachable, nor are mistakes made along the way. Elections can change administrations, but lets understand what is and is not an impeachable offense and grow up people.

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At what point does the blame for what's going on in Iraq fall on the shoulders of the Iraqis who were given a chance, a fresh slate, to rebuild their country yet failed miserably?

Yes, the US has made tremendous errors, but ignoring the equal incompetence of the Iraqis in this whole thing admits "solutions" which can, at most, be only half accurate.

Does the writer live in this planet? Bush will never admit to a mistake, he only takes detours but "stays the course" even if it means changing the words. Bush, and for that matter, any president before, now and in the future are mortgaged to the Jews. Iran can not defend itself; Israel has nuclear weapons, and as the USA, has stated that will use them as it sees fit. Sounds familiar? Israel's foreign policy is the same as Bush's foreign policy, pre-emptive strike. No American president will abandon the Jews, because they hold the economic power, ergo the political power.

This piece is so typical of the Palestinian press. The Arabs are never wrong. It is always someone else. Here it is the poor Iraqi people who are so virtuous and would be living in Paradise were it not for the big bad Americans.
There is no real hope for the Arab world unless it learns to take responsibility for its own shortcomings and situation.

The Lebanese people did themselves a service by booting out Syria. The U.S. had nothing to do with the massive demonstrations or the popular commitment to democracy. And it seems to me like Lebanese independence has been reversed, what with Isreal handing power back to the terrorists. That's my two cents anyway.

As much as I'd like to see Bush persecuted, it's not what's right for the world. Impeaching him over the war would be saying that we don't care enough to keep fighting. Worse yet, the U.S. would probably become quite isolationist. No one would want to risk repeating the mistakes of an impeached president. As hamfisted as U.S. efforts are, I think its a good thing to have a democratic superpower out there.

The Bush Administration did the Iraqi people a service by ridding them of Saddam Hussein.
It did the Lebanese people a service by ridding them of Syria, though this may soon be reversed.
The Iraqi situation is in part a result of the U.S. not having realized, what a violent, conflict ridden area they were entering.

Bush should be impeached and prosecuted for war crimes along with the others who launched this war.

Iraq has become one big huge mess.

What if congress admitted Bush's mistake for him? If an investigation decided that Bush had lied on prewar intelligence, congress might chose to censure him. They wouldn't be censuring him on the entire war, per say, but that ambiguity might be beneficial. The censure would serve as a hand washing for the next administration, letting them start over with a cleaner slate. At the same time, the censure wouldn't have to be a condemnation of the war itself, meaning the U.S. wouldn't give up any of the precious little legitimacy it has left in this war.

Meh, probably just another crazy left wing dream.

Well whether Bush admits it was wrong to attack Iraq or not, the election in USA essentially speaks volumes about american mindset. At this stage,where a sudden withdrawal would bring on more violence, killing, it is america's turn to fix what they broke! Yes talk about stupidity..ya..it was! Bush43 that it was an "opportunity". Sorry people. Let us mend fences and move on!!!

I hate to say it, but expecting Bush, the savior of the world(in his mind), the "Decider", to actually apologize is a pipe dream. Doing so would cause the rest of the world to misunderestimate him.

I want accountability from George W. Bush for his crimes against humantiy. However, I'm not going to hold my breath. Even his claim that he wants to work with Congress is another lie. My name for him is the Liar in Chief.

"Once such a process begins, a gradual withdrawal of troops can occur. This must occur within a regional and international framework that prevents a power vacuum and the worsening of the situation on the ground. Otherwise, another sudden change in the security landscape of a much more fragmented Iraq could be very dangerous."

Let's hope that an eventual solution to this mess, and there may not be a good one at this point, does not depend on an admission, which may be long in coming.

I would have been interested in what framework you had in mind. Iran's nuclear program and Iran's and Syria's interests in Lebanon via Hezbollah complicate an agreement, certainly: does the US let up on its demands that Iran end its nuclear ambitions in return for Iran's help in Iraq?

The Iraq Study Group, I suspect, will not provide a great deal of clarity.