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The San Francisco Chronicle ran a story on Wednesday with the headline “U.S. may have weeks, not months, to avert civil war, adviser warns”. In part, it says:

…in a sign of the growing sense of urgency, a member of a high-powered government advisory body that is developing options to prevent Iraq’s chaotic collapse warns that the United States could have just weeks, not months, to avoid an all-out civil war.

“There’s a sense among many people now that things in Iraq are slipping fast and there isn’t a lot of time to reverse them,” said Larry Diamond, one of a panel of experts advising the Iraq Study Group, which is preparing a range of policy alternatives for President Bush.
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…Diamond said the one thing the United States might no longer have is time. The Bush administration needs to initiate a “crash program” to avoid a catastrophe, he said.

The fact that it has long been pre-ordained that James Baker’s rescue committee would not submit its report until after November 7 makes it perfectly clear where everyone’s priorities lie.