US to build 4 US bases in Iraq

I personally believe we should stay, and not be afraid of the casualties that this campaign will cause. For instance, for the short term, we're the glue keeping all the different ethnic people together in Iraq, and the defender of the elected government of Iraq.

So, we need to rebuild its security forces to a high standard for say 15 years, starting off with side by side military support, and until Iraqis reach the stage they can stand on their own, withdrawing our military and mostly becoming a netowrk of advisors for the Iraqi military, and eventually a strategic partnership.

I vote to stay and knowing US military, they will stay. Here's a good read for you Ryan_Liam, me boy. (Ummm, you remind me of me grandson. Nasty little twit he can be on occasion. Would you be he? ) Anyway, on with your reading of the right kind of stuff:

July 22, 2005
And Then They Came After Us/We’re at war. How about acting like it?
by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online

First the terrorists of the Middle East went after the Israelis. From 1967 we witnessed 40 years of bombers, child murdering, airline hijacking, suicide murdering, and gratuitous shooting. We in the West usually cried crocodile tears, and then came up with all sorts of reasons to allow such Middle Eastern killers a pass.

Yasser Arafat, replete with holster and rants at the U.N., had become a “moderate” and was thus free to steal millions of his good-behavior money. If Hamas got European cash, it would become reasonable, ostracize its “military wing,” and cease its lynching and vigilantism.

When some tried to explain that Wars 1-3 (1947, 1956, 1967) had nothing to do with the West Bank, such bothersome details fell on deaf ears.

When it was pointed out that Germans were not blowing up Poles to get back lost parts of East Prussia nor were Tibetans sending suicide bombers into Chinese cities to recover their country, such analogies were caricatured.

Full article, read all of it!