I'm beginning to have some real misgivings about a full withdrawal

[Raven]

from Iraq. Help me with this. I'm listening to the Senate debate and I have been following the statements made recently by the maniac President. I have always supported a FULL withdrawal of troops...no leaving some behind as "force protection or to train or to chase terrorists. But I have also figured that we would get NATO and some of Iraq's neighbors to move in to protect the Iraqi people and hopefully do those things that we have utterly failed at. But you have to have an administration willing to ask for help, willing to negotiate for it. We don't have that.

Just getting our troops out of Iraq is going to be an enormous undertaking and it is going to be extremely dangerous. It is going to take some very competent leadership to pull this off without further endangering our kids over there. Competent leadership...we don't have it.

There are thousands of Iraqis who have put their lives on the line by helping the American forces. We have to get them out too. We need an administration that is committed to this and that can grease the wheels of government to make this happen. We don't have the ability or the committment to pull this off. Our past history of taking in Iraqis is dismal, why should that suddenly change. This administration doesn't give a damn about its own citizens in need, why should it care about Iraqis?

If we are successful in forcing a full withdrawal or even a partial one, I have no reason to believe that we can force this administration to do it right. I am afraid that this administration will cause it to fail and then say "We told you so". Any bloodshed will be blamed on the Democrats and the Republicans will use it in 2008. The President will be out of the mess he's created and able to blame others for it..."If we had only stayed the course..." I'm almost beginning to wonder if this is a clever trap for us and a brillaint escape hatch for Bush.

Please tell me how I am wrong on this and how we can avoid the awful result I fear.