Jazz has a post at The Left Right Debate this morning advocating an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. As I discussed below this is the conclusion of a large number of pro war hawks as well. It is becoming fairly obvious that Vice President Dick Cheney should have listened to Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney who said after the first Gulf War that trying to take out Saddam would have been a bad idea.
I don't know what the real motives for the invasion of Iraq were, I suspect they were many and conflicting but were certainly none of the reasons given. I suspect from the Cheney wing of the administration it was all about economic imperialism in general and specifically control of the oil. Rove thought it would be a great political move. All or most of the economic ends are no longer achievable and the invasion turned out to be a political bullet Bush had to dodge.
The United States is now The Problem in Iraq. Things will only get worse for the people of Iraq as long as we are there. It's time to say "Saddam is gone so we won" and get out as quickly as possible.
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