Last I checked, America never had a definitive withdrawl policy in Iraq. It feels to me like we went in guns blazing and then figured the Iraqi people would be so grateful to be out from under the yoke of Saddam Hussain that they'd spontaneously become a democracy.

Americans are slowing beginning to realize that the costs of this military campaign are going to be very, very steep. That's why Bush's approval rating is in the toilet right now. He said it wasn't going to be a quagmire, and it is.

This is exactly the reason why we didn't push to Bagdad in '91.


And calling the American weak-willed simply because they are no longer willing to support a war they are beginning to realize they don't understand the purpose of is unfair. Just because we're in the middle of a conflict doesn't mean the democratic process should come to a screetching halt. Some Right-Wingers have the mentality that if you don't support the Republicans, you are somehow un-American. That type of thinking is actually what is unamerican, to me.