[HawaiianGecko]

	No, I really don't think he believes his message. He's claiming that "leaving troops in the area, to help if needed" means that we would not be cutting and running. If we pull troops out, does anyone expect anything other than an all out civil war?  Is Murtha saying; we pull out to Kuwait, a civil war starts, and then we go back in when things are much worse? I find it hard that a good military man would believe that. I can't believe the military let this man stay in place for 37 years with that brilliant thinking.

 

 

[JCEccles]

He isn't "a good military man." He is a defeatist Democrat, bought and paid for by the America-hating Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party.

Whatever he might have been in 1966 is irrelevant to what he has become in the interim.

[Mike Darancette]

"leaving troops in the area, to help if needed"

What nation in the area would have us if we bailed out on Iraq? They would be stupid to make themselves the next target?

If we did have to go back into Iraq to quell a civil war or counter an invasion from, say, Iran we would need a lot more than 160,000 troops and suffer many more casualties than if we finish our job there.