And there's a lot of company on this limb.

Italy sets date to start Iraq withdrawal. Bulgaria, too.

As the situation continues to deteriorate.

Suicide bombing targets religious pilgrims, killing 5

It's all driven by politics, isn't it.

And the Bushies can't claim they weren't given everything for which they asked, and just plain lost a situation they shouldn't have gotten the country into in the first place. As was predicted.

Interestingly enough, none of what they promised has happened, and everything which has happened was predicted before the invasion.

Iraq a haven for al-Qaeda, they've created more terrorists with their heavy-handed occupation and torture, lost the US whatever respect the ROW may have had, given up any moral authority on Human Rights. Etc.