[Polybius]

Barack Obama restated his pledge to end the Iraq war by the summer of 2010, arguing that the U.S. must focus on defeating Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran.

How can you keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iran by bugging out of Iraq and handing Iraq over to Iran?

As things are right now, the U.S. massive military presence in Iraq has Iran's head on the chopping block.

It took the U.S. from December 1941 to June 1944 for the U.S. to establish a beachead in Europe and Obama wants to abandon the entire country right next door to Iran and fight Iran on Iran's terms.

[tobyhill]

We also didn’t stay in Berlin to watch the Tulips grow, we stayed there to make sure the Soviets stopped where they were.