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In response to Bush's speech to the United Nation, Juan Cole posted this scenario yesterday, trying to frame the disintegration in Iraq in United States scale terms. He says:

• "What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number....What if, during the past year, the Secretary of State (Aqilah Hashemi), the President (Izzedine Salim), and the Attorney General (Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim) had all been assassinated?"