Bush's Exit Plan: Iraq Civil War?

I'd like to quote from today's "Democracy Now", the daily news program hosted by Amy Goodman and broadcast nationally over public airwaves. The full story can be read here.

Imagine our military trained to fight wars and win them but whose mission may now actually be to incite a war among the people we've supposedly liberated! Incredible sounding? Well remember, we're under incredible "leadership".

Here's Amy's introduction of Arun Gupta:

"Our guest today writes that civil war has already begun in Iraq. He has the center spread in the current issue of the paper called, 'Bush’s Exit Plan: Civil War.' He says with the war stalemated, repeated deployments wearing down morale of U.S. troops and too few new recruits to maintain force levels, the Bush administration may be deliberately provoking civil war as its exit strategy.

"The goal is not so much to exit Iraq, but leave behind a skeletal military force that would maintain the network of permanent bases under construction throughout Iraq while maintaining access to massive oil deposits in the North and South. Breaking Iraq into a series of mini-states, a strategy being pushed by some White House allies in the media, is seen as one way to ensure these goals."

• Arun Gupta, Editor with the New York Independent newspaper of the New York Independent Media Center.