The Brits already decided to pull out 100% (which takes time of course) because they're sick to death of this war, not because they've cleaned everything up. I hope the Iraqi's can handle things on their own, but it won't be easy. Either way this war will take many more years, dollars, and lives to finish (if it can be finished). There's already been too much money, resources, reputation, and lives wasted to make the end result worth it.

Seems nobody remembers that Iraq was an enemy state of Iran. How is creating a weak democratic nation that may or may not succeed, countering Iran? "Planting the seeds of democracy around them", what does that even mean? Iran had a dictator at their borders who hated them and gave Ahmadinejad one more enemy to worry about. Now we'll have a weakened Iraqi state that Iran could trample.
Strategically, it makes no sense. Terrorist recruitment has gone through the roof because of this war, Iraq has been infested with lawlessness, Iran no longer has an enemy at their borders to worry about (Iraq is way too tied up with insurgents to be any threat). America did Tehran a big favor by starting this mess. Good job George!:thumbsup: