that p and i think it's not going to happen again and certainly not in anything like that fashion. to speak to the position of people like myself, what mistake did we make? we thought, many of us, that the toppling of saddam hussein to end what he was doing, wouldn't be a bad idea if it was accomplished at reasonable shaft. it was defeated and defeated early on as we looked back by the sectarian entips among the iraqi people. it's impossible to build a civil society on that shaky, fractured foundation. i think the mistake we made was, i'm talking here about myself as well as some of my colleague, not just at "the new york times" but many publications, was not to understand how deeply fractured that society was, how strongly held those animosities