clipped from: www.leanleft.com Iraq is George W. Bush’s Stalingrad: one theater out of many in a larger conflict that comes to define, erroneously, the totality of the conflict for the political leadership. Fortunately for the world, Hitler fixated on taking and holding Stalingrad and it cost him one quarter o more of his Eastern forces. It would be a tragedy if Bush’s and the conservatives movement’s fixation on Iraq and Iran were to allow Al Qaeda to emerge stronger from 9/11 than they were before. Unfortunately, that is precisely what is happening. And no amount of “will” can change that.