Neocons are Abandoning Iraq Ship

Even those who are the ideological architects of the Iraq War are giving up:

President John F. Kennedy's famous remark that victory has a thousand fathers and that defeat is an orphan couldn't be more apt these days. The intellectual godfathers of the ruinous Iraq war - "neoconservatives" who insisted it would be a breeze to invade Iraq and transform it into a beacon of democracy in the Middle East - are jumping ship and pointing fingers.

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Who is the real winner in Iraq? The Iraqi head of state is in Iran. Does that answer the question?:

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was due to fly to Tehran to meet his Iranian counterpart on Monday as the government reopened Baghdad airport and lifted a curfew imposed after a string of deadly attacks last week.

Pressure is growing on Iraq's government and the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to look beyond the country's borders to bring an end to the ongoing violence.