Some smart thinking on why Iraq from Christopher Allbritton in Back to Iraq 2.0: Why Iraq?

It is a new imperialism that believes a number of benefits would follow if the United States occupied Iraq. I foresee very bad things and few if any benefits to the U.S

In his current post he make the observation that "The Christian Right, neocons and other hawks who have taken a hard-line on Iraq believe they are doing God’s work, more or less, and if you’ve got God on your side, you don’t dicker with the devil."

There is no deal, nothing that Bush 2 will accept except for the United States occupying the country. This was also the situation in the last Gulf War when Saddam finally reallized it was serious, he was going to be invaded but too late and Bush 1 rejected all peace overtures.