According to one of my regular emails from Agora , maudin, a few months back, I read that the former head of CENTCOM wanted to leave Iraq AASAP in order to prepare the command to be able to protect the Pakistani nukes. He had a big fight with Petrias over this, and I belive he resigned when Petrias was elevated by GWB. He openly called Petrias a world class ass licker. Chalk up another blunder for the Bush administration. In many libertarian circles, getting al queda and specifically OSAMA is legitimate as we were attacked.