So, the opposition has whipped The Daily Kos, and by extension, you.
Just another reason that pack of antidemocracy browneyed shit-pitchers shouldn't be given serious regard. They don't want us to win, and never did.
So, a puppet regime centered around Basra and the mouth of the Euphrates, the strings being pulled by the mullahcracy in Teheran -- a good thing, on balance, or a bad thing? It does mean a major petroleum field controlled by unfriendlies, after all. How much of the world's petroleum do we want controlled by unfriendlies?