[Ninian Dryhope]

Iraq is proving to be a tough nut to crack, Still, winning in Iraq, no matter how long it takes and no matter how tough it gets, sends a very powerful signal to the terrorists and the rest of the world that the USA is no one to mess around with.

Losing in Iraq would hearten the terrorists and demoralize our allies and let loose the floodgates of hell on us and the rest of the civilized world.

Cutting and running is a certain path to much more misery.

Sometimes one has to choose the lesser of two evils and having to slog it out with the terrorists in Iraq is lessor of the two evils we are now facing.

Naturally, the Democrats would prefer doing the easy thing now, despite the price would would have to pay down the road for cutting and running now.

[ClaireSolt]

Oh, I see. We concentrate on Baghdad and that i a failure because there is not fighting outside of Baghdad. Two or three car bombs a day would make Paris feel happy.