From former Carter aide, a plan for getting out of Iraq (Zbigniew Brzezinski)

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0413/p25s01-usmb.html

From former Carter aide, a plan for getting out of Iraq
Zbigniew Brzezinski outlines a two-point plan: Consult with Iraqi leaders to fix a departure date, and engage all of Iraq's neighbors about securing the country's future.
By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON - The week the Iraq war started, in March 2003, Zbigniew Brzezinski received a briefing from President Bush's top security advisers: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Dr. Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, asked them whether they were "really confident" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

"I've known some of them for 20 years," he recalled at a Monitor breakfast Thursday. "They looked me in the eye, and each of them said, 'We know, Zbig, we know they have weapons of mass destruction.' I was skeptical."

Brzezinski then recounted appearing on national television the day the war started, and saying that he prayed to God that there are WMD in Iraq, "because if we started this war on false assumptions, it's going to be very costly."

Today, Brzezinski says, his fears have been realized. In the session with reporters, he said he believes Mr. Bush has resigned himself to bequeathing the war to his successor – and that whoever succeeds him will end the war. The question is, how?

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1. Obviously, Dr. Brzezinski's suggestions would require tactful diplomacy...

Well beyond the mental capability of our
blood soaked Re-Born Play-Boy Caligula.