re: Why leave?
Unconditional surrender is probably the only tactic the Democrats have left to insure that this war is lost. This is why they're pushing it so hard.
The hallucination that all would be well if we just left Iraq is just that. Do you think the Taliban would stop fighting if we left Afghanistan?
People who have spent time in Iraq, or Afghanistan, can be found in large numbers here. You're welcome to sift through their comments yourself.
I wish Eisenhower could be resurrected, and run for President. He'd wipe his ass with any one of the idiots the Democrats have been able to put forward.