Pentagon plans for dealing with civil war in Iraq. But I thought that was just the media making stuff up!

Military officials tell NBC News the first objective, however, is to head off a civil war. The U.S. military hopes to keep Iraqi security forces from taking sides in the sectarian violence by pressuring the Iraqi government to crack down on any rogue elements within the police or military.

The second option: U.S. forces could again be sent into combat against sectarian militias, which military officials say would require an increase in the number of American soldiers and Marines in Iraq.

And the last resort, if violence is spinning out of countrol: Military officials say they would also have to consider the possible withdrawal of American forces.

So let me get this straight. Our first plan is to hope that it does not happen. Our second plan is to send more Americans in to kill the Iraqi's who do not want to play ball with their invaders. And the third plan is to run for it when it becomes too dangerous to stay.

And what kind of Iraq will we be running away from? What do we say to the rest of the world if we start a fire and then run away so that we don't get burned? I hate this war! I hate the fact that we allowed ourselves to be involved in something so obviously destined to fail!

But what do we do now? I hate it when the Republicans turn to the Democrats and ask them if they want to "cut and run". No they don't want to cut and run. They don't want to leave the Iraqi's in a mess that was caused by Americans. The fact is there is no good answer! There is no way to get out of this situation cleanly. Nobody, whether Republican or Democrat, can possibly find a way to hit the reset button and undo all the damage that we have caused.

To me the best thing to do is get out as soon as possible. To move our troops out of harms way, perhaps using John Murtha's plan to move the troops to the periphery in the hopes that the Iraqi's will start solving some of these problems on their own. From there we can start to bring the soldiers home.

Look Iraq is broken! We broke it and we will never be able to fix it directly. Someday we might be able to offer them some support without trying to influence their culture in any direct way. We owe them at least that much. We owe them far more then we can ever repay.