Ah, what a simple mind will say. Cut & Run, the GOPs favorite knee jerk response to doing anything different in Iraq then what we are doing now. Let's see, 2322 dead, 17,000+ wounded, 450 billion dollars spent, 3 elections.
..hmmm,,now that's a cut and run if I ever saw it. When is enough, enough. We can stay in Iraq another 5 or 10 years and the situation would be the same or worse. Unless George W Bush is willing to commit 500,000 troups to Iraq, there will always be an insurgency, sectarian strife, bombs, torture, kidnapping, etc. It took an iron fist from Saddam to hold these three tribes together, we ain't gonna do it with our civilized white boy democracy. The sooner we leave, the sooner the Iraqis will find a dictator to rule their barbaric land. I say we got rid of Sadam, we gave you money, arms & a government. What else is left but to let these people rule their own land.

"Anyone who thinks we can just cut and run will have to look at what happened when we did not go all of the way to Baghdad in "Desert Storm". Saddam continued to execute all and any who helped the US in any way."

>>>Don't you get it? As long as the US is in Iraq providing cover for the new 'government', the Iraqi people will never commit. They'll continue to sit back and watch US troops die. They are aware of the tides of history.

"Japan and Germany both are at the forefront"

>>>The moral of the story might be that if we wish to democratize a country, we first have to firebomb it for several months and then nuke it.