the fact of the matter is, we are committed to iraq now, and it would be worse to pull out sooner than later, leaving the country in an unstable state. my father has spent over two years total in iraq and i would trust his valid opinion of the situation over there better than the news that i see on tv, partially because it is very biased against the conflict. he has stated more than once that a huge majority of iraqi citizens prefer having the united states over there rather than not. this is not to say we should establish a permanent presence in iraq, but that it is in reality a small minority of the population that is against our occupation. saddam hussein a.k.a. the "butcher of baghdad" was a terrible dictator who needed to be removed from his tyrranical and self-serving rule (this is evidenced simply by the golden plated toilet seats in his baghdad palace that my dad saw). whether there were wmds or not, the u.n. was doing nothing to stop his massacring of kurds and shiites. if president bush had committed genocide on an ethnic or religious group of our country, i have no doubt about the uproar that would follow. forget meaningless u.n. sanctions, he would have immediately been taken from power and executed for crimes against humanity.
my basic point in this is, that you should forget why we went there right now. focus on what is before us and what needs to be done. hindsight 20/20.