text: how can anyone claim we are winning in iraq with disintegration nearly complete? total of 300 murders and bodies found today those claims come from people who are mentally inflexible, which is to say authoritarian personalities that cannot recalculate based on new information.  they have a plan for a multi-ethnic parliamentary iraq.  they will not deviate.  they will not partition.  they will not listen to their own generals.  the murders and bodies don't matter.  the fact that no one will defend the border does not ring any bells or inform them that there is no nation to be built.  good explanations  can be found in kevin philips "american theocracy" and in john w. dean's "conservatives without conscience."  those who make and support this "winning" strategy in iraq are in for a shocking surprise on the evening of tuesday, november 7, 2006.   watch the news that night and you'll see how much confidence the american people now have in these claims of "winning."  and take a look at this, an editorial insisting rumsfeld be fired.  it will appear in the army times, navy times and air force times on monday, nov 6th:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/indexn/detail?blogid=16&entry_id=10582