Terrorists successfully influence another nation's politics--again.
This is not a good thing. Iraq, or no Iraq, how long before this becomes standard operating procedure for our enemies? How long, for example, before Americans are held hostage until we formally sever ties with Israel?
Do you honestly think all these bastards are just going to retire from terrorism and go home if we left Iraq? We lost almost 3,000 Americans at a time when we had no troops at all in either Afghanistan or Iraq.
Your obsession with Bush and military casualties is causing you to miss the real issues.