“When we got Saddam and they got the purple finger vote, our job was finished.”
That is a very dangerous and short-sighted idea. If we leave Iraq without stabilizing it as an enemy of terrorism, we leave ourselves wide open to a huge increase in terrorism.
Iran could just walk in and take it over.
Our enemies are fighting us on many fronts, the largest one being Iraq.
If we leave, we not only send a message about our willingness to defend ourselves and our interests. Kind of like the message we sent after Somalia, and after Lebanon. It will embolden our enemies, and give them a base from which to attack us.
And, like before the war, Iraq will once again put its WMD factories on-line.
If they do that, and we find out about it... how can we ever go back to put them out of business again, after we blew it the first time?
How can we ever prosecute another war, no matter how in-your-face the evidence of threats may be?
“That is a very dangerous and short-sighted idea. If we leave Iraq without stabilizing it as an enemy of terrorism, we leave ourselves wide open to a huge increase in terrorism.”
Stabilizing it how? By backing the Iranian influenced government or the Sunni Warlords in the Anbar province? They are opposed to each other by the way.