How (and why) will we leave Iraq?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

Poll question: How (and why) will we leave Iraq?

Every day we are greeted with worsening news. Every day, the outrages grow more bloody and disgusting. 255 dead yesterday, 6 worshipers burned alive today. And our military attacks a funeral procession. Even the most dense Bushista apologist must realize that Iraq is a bloody, pointless and stupid quagmire, and that our continued presence makes things worse, not better.

Unfortunately, the Democrats, or a good portion of them, are too timid and afraid of their own shadows to do anything positive on the bloody quagmire known as IraqNam. Despite voting fraud, the vast majority of the US managed to throw the GOP out of power in Congress. The number 1 issue? Iraq. Yet, despite the worsening news, despite the victory in congress, and despite a few brave voices talking truth to America, I don't see the Democrats moving unless they themselves are pushed.

So, here is the poll issue. How - and when - and why - will we leave Iraq?

[mike_c]

1. with the election of a hostile congress, Bush knows that he MUST...

...resolve the situation before leaving office, otherwise he will leave utter wreckage behind in the Republican party and will be reviled for it. If he has any hope whatsoever of leaving a positive legacy for the party-- his own is beyond salvaging-- he must get out of Iraq as soon as possible. Even the monkey king, in his delusional world, has to know that by now.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. he who can do no wrong? Who hears voices in his head?

who can't recall even one error or mistake while playing at president?

If Cheney leaves, ( rumors on the tubes of the internets) and McCain is installed as VP, I can see Bush resigning before the primaries. The one thing more striking about Junior George, after his total lack of intellectual curiosity, is his total lack of concern for human life and dignity. I really believe he does not care one bit about the Iraqi or US deaths. He is incapable of such emotions.

[Buck Rabbit]

3. We will leave when the Iraqi govenment tells us to.

The good news is there is a possibility that will be happening soon.

I think there is a high probability al-Maliki is a dead man walking if he goes ahead and meets with Bush next Thursday in Jordan; unless he issues a strong rebuke against Bush and US occupation. Even if he is not killed by a Sunni or a Sadrist or an intra-party rival, his ability to govern will be gone if the Sadr factions withdraw from the Shiite Alliance. Once he is gone or converted to the "end the occupation" position a possibility for an Iraqi demand of withdrawal exists.

This meeting next Thursday may, in one of many possible ways, figuratively blow up on Bush's plans and be the catalyst to an "official" Iraqi demand for the end of the occupation.

Otherwise, without impetuous from the Iraqis we are there at least until 2009.