A proposal:
I think it would be a great idea if the Bush administration and the Pentagon published a number specifying the deaths required to surrender in Iraq, pull out, and leave the nation to the monsters.
Whether the number is deaths in a single day, like the couple of hundred in Lebanon that sent us packing back then, or a cumulation of deaths in small doses, the specification would save all of us a lot of trouble. The Baathists would have a goal they could shoot for, and the leftists in our own country could set up a tally board and know when to have the balloons and streamers ready, and all the nasty uncertainty would be gone.