Has it really come to this in the Iraq War?

Steve Gilliard doesn't seem to be too confident in the administration's optimistic predictions about the Iraq War. At least not if this 03/01/06 post of his is any measure:

But Iraq has gone horribly wrong and is about to end very ugly.

The US cannot stop the violence now, and every commander and soldier knows this. They admit it in polling. They don't have enough men or equipment and the men they do have are about to take a sharp decline in quality.

The scenes of evacuation from Iraq will make Saigon look like Spring Break. Thousands who worked with the US will be killed by all sides. Think Rwanda or Bosnia. Think piles of bodies, decapitated, shot. Abu Gharib will pale before the carnage.

And this is in an orderly evacuation with phased withdrawals.

No, I don't think he's optimistic about the situation there at all!

The very, very sad part is that the scenario he paints here is not at all unrealistic, though we can always hope for the best. Actually, Gilliard is presenting this as an optimistic scenario. Check out his post for the darker alternative he sees.

Or, to put it another way, the scenario described in the quotation above may be the best case situation at this point.

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