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Whatever he might have been in 1966 is irrelevant to what he has become in the interim.
What nation in the area would have us if we bailed out on Iraq? They would be stupid to make themselves the next target?
If we did have to go back into Iraq to quell a civil war or counter an invasion from, say, Iran we would need a lot more than 160,000 troops and suffer many more casualties than if we finish our job there.