So right now there's a huge fight going on in the progressive blogosphere, and it's over the question of what Iraq should look like in the future. I don't want to piss off any friends, so I'm only going to do a couple of links. Let me say that I don't know the answers and I am not convinced that any plan I've read will work. War is funny like that- you can plan all you want, but you never really know what the final result will be. And don't misunderstand- I dread a repeat of Cambodia in Iraq as much as any humane person. Via Moon of Alabama, the 'plan:'

The Democrats and the likely next U.S. president Hillary C. are ready to continue the Bush agenda.

In the Senate they claim to know what's best for Iraqis:

[T]he U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed the decentralization of Iraq into semi-autonomous regions.

The nonbinding measure sponsored by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) -- which supports a "federal system" that would divide Iraq into sectarian-dominated regions -- won unusually broad bipartisan support, passing 75 to 23.

The media fails to note that this was Bush's original plan.