There were no WMD. So that reason for being there wasn't valid in the first place.

Next, the fallback, humanitarian, bringing democracy to the Middle East - they've created a situation where staying isn't going to bring the promised results,

leaving is going to acknowledge the waste of many lives and hundreds of billions of dollars,

and the country will decend into a civil war, with the Kurds doing God knows what.

I'd think the troops have to stay there long enough for Halliburton and Bechtel, et al., to tie up the contracts for whatever they want to do, and

then the PR people will have to come up with a way to explain how the lives and money wasn't lost. Tough sell, I'd think.

Arf