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I disagree with your analysis. If we move our forces into Kurdistan no one is going to attack them. Shia-stan and Sunni-stan wont be clean entities for years, in other words, there will be slaughter in southern Iraq for a decade which will drain resources and energy from the entire islamic world. For our part we would be able to strike anywhere in the region on a moments notice. Sunni training camp? - poof it's gone. Persians crossing the border?, poof they're f******* gone.

The Turks are not going to take on the US. Period. Even if they did they would fare little better than the Iraq army did.

Your alternative apparently is to remain in Iraq, propping it up, for the next 50 years. No thanks. It was a stupid idea to begin with.

Your alternative apparently is to remain in Iraq, propping it up, for the next 50 years. No thanks. It was a stupid idea to begin with.

Thanks for the 20/20 hindsight! Real helpful in 2007 for a decision that had to be made years ago.

Sunni training camp? - poof it's gone. Persians crossing the border?, poof they're f******* gone.

I always get a kick out of this logic, usually coming from the Reid/Pelosi/Murtha Strategic CutnRun department.

I see your point....since we can't control/strike the bad guys while we're actually based in Baghdad, well, we'll be able to hit them much more effectively from farther away on Gulf carriers, or hey, why not Okinawa for the greatest effectiveness!!?

And of course, this strategy worked extemely well in Afghanistan, where we lobbed cruise missiles left and right at Al Qaeda training camps, only to have them strike back effectively on 9/11. Worked great, huh?

Oh. And the intelligence on WHERE and WHEN to strike some camp here or there, why, that will be so much better when we leave and all the locals learn to keep their heads down for fear of those left in control. What are they sposed to do, call USAF911? Tell their neighborhood Sunni police officer that there's a Sunni terror training camp in their neighbor's house?

There's no making your ilk happy. If, as I believe, bugging out is a worse option than staying for 50 years, then you will merely say in hindsight that we bugged out the wrong way, or you would've done it differently and of course, better.