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I pretty much agree with your comments.

If these were consultations behind closed doors with leaders of both parties, I might be more willing to relent. We cannot get into a situation where the leftists in our nation can telegraph just how long the terrorists need to hang on.

If we do, the terrorists will plan their efforts as well as possible to destroy our ability to train and leave. We will simply lose. And when we do, it will destroy our capability to wage the War on Terrorism.

IMO, any semblance of peace in the West hinges on a viable Iraq after we have left. If Iraq crumbles, the West is in serious trouble.

The bitch is if it becomes clear that the Sunnis want at the Shias, and that is what it really is about. How long do we underwrite avoiding that with the blood of US troops, if the Shias have the slows in getting about the business of creating an effective national army to deal with that? The Sunnis strike me as the lean and hungry and agreesive North Vietnamense, and the Shias more laid back South Vietnamese. At what point, do we move to plan B, with is a splintered nation, however ugly that might be? No, I don't have any good answers. I don't think there are any, if events disappoint. And Bush IS running out of time.