Table of Contents:
  • The Bush administration's formal goals
  • Bi-partisan Congressional goals for Iraq
  • The imputed goals of the Bush administration
  • Costs, sunk costs, and potential benefits
  • Securing the Iraqi federation for all its peoples
  • Respecting Iraq's constitutional integrity
  • Respecting Iraq's territorial integrity
  • Informing, calming, and working with the neighbors
  • Cleaning up without ruling
  • Appendix 1. On difficulties in counting deaths in Iraq
  • Appendix 2. Xenophobia, sexism, in-group solidarity, traditional religiosity, and democratic dispositions in Iraq.