PS
"You do realize that if you are right you are making a spectacularly good case for not leaving Iraq, don't you?"
DUH! See above. We CAN'T leave Iraq. This doesn't mean we SHOULD be there, nor does it mean we won't. We will, shortly after the presidential election, and we will reap the whirlwind for our choices. Sadly, so will that entire region and possibly the world (What, you think China and India are just going to sit on their thumb when the middle east goes up in flames?)