You tell them all how the GOP is going to run this war! The GOP will stay the course, call up more troops, and make an eternal commitment. The troops will stay there as long as there is a GOP president and majority in Congress, by golly.
Oh wait. The GOP lost the majority in congress. What to do now? How conservative is it to spend $2 trillion to prop up a corrupt Shiite Hezbullah dominated Iraq?
Keep it up with GOP policies like that, and you will have Hillary and Edwards getting more conservative every day. Thanks for nothing.
Keep on plugging. The facts (i.e. the obvious Bush/neocon disaster in Iraq) are on your side. Back in the late 1990s, conservatives actually opposed Wilsonian nation building....that was before Bush led them down the garden path.
I'm in favor of keeping American troops in Iraq. Indefinitely. And so (I suspect) are a large number of demonrats, when it comes right down to it, and it will, since, as you say, they are in charge of the spending now.
That doesn't mean that the parameters of the mission shouldn't be tweaked in a way that's more favorable for our guys. But I don't think "exit" is the key word here. There's another word. Seems like there are some here who have forgotten it. Begins with a letter towards the end of the alphabet. Need a hint?