re: #7 Rightwingconspirator

50,000 troops of about 120,000 are scheduled to leave by end of August. A step in the right direction.

I hear that. My fear about this is that we leave and it all goes immediately to shit at the hands of the Iranis. Iran’s game here is clearly to get a nuke, wait for us to leave and then tke over. We have no chance f going back then to clean up with an Irani nuclear threat.

The only good thing about Iraq is direct threat of pressure on Iran. We simply can’t leave at the moment.

Or if we did completely take out the Irani nuclear threat, I mean in a make the rubble bounce sort of way, I would be quite happy to let them have Iraq as a consolation prize.