[Flatus I. Maximus]

The past predicts the future. If Kerry is elected, his constituency will pressure him to withdraw the "Amerikan Occupation Force" (they'll call it that before they're done, if they're not calling it that already), and in a matter of months he'll negotiate some kind of temporary cease-fire, maybe engineer a token handover of the military mission to UN Peacekeepers, declare victory, and cut and run.

Just like Somalia. Just like Vietnam.

After that, the Islamonazis will take a breather to rest and re-arm, then they'll FLATTEN the elected Iraqi government in a stunning blitzkrieg and butcher anyone they can catch who cooperated with the Americans. But we won't care, because our soldiers won't be there, and the only news crews on the ground will belong to Al Jazeera and Agence French Presse.

Just like Iran. Just like Saigon.

Then, having proven to their satisfaction that the U.S. is a toothless tiger, the Islamonazis will turn their attention back to their original plan: the destruction of Israel and the Islamization of Europe. And they'll do so in the full confidence that the Great Satan has been taught its lesson, and will not interfere again.

[OhGeorgia]

100% right!!!!

Kerry even if he wants to win in Iraq cant. his base wont let him.

Expect pressure on a withdrawl even before his inauguration

[tet68]

I fear you are right, I would expect more low scale terror
here, bus bombings, poison scares etc.
Once the Islamic fanatics become victorious their hubris will know no bounds. If ever the domino theory were true
it would be the case in the middle east and Europe, although more perhaps from demographics than conquest.I do
not think the russians would not like shareing the continent with a hegemonic Islamic state but there might come a time when that point was moot.

Once an Islamic superstate begins to form, road to the final struggle for survival will begin in ernest.