For people who have objectively been following this, the election is simply one more step in the same process we have been following for more than a year -- staged transition to democracy and training up Iraqi security. That has always been the exit strategy and always will be. The Euros and the Dems now think that this is the "beginning" of an exit strategy? The trouble is that they have believed their own propaganda about how only negative things happen in Iraq and not positive things.
I just have no idea what these people are talking about half the time. I suppose if they go on a cross country drive it's a complete failure every hour before they reach their destination. And then there is Joe Biden who has repeatedly said that there are only 4,000 trained Iraqi security forces. I wonder how they managed to man over 5,000 polling places.