Since we are
Exploring the opposition mind
let's explore econ21's brilliant post.

I actually don't have much dispute with the first 90%, laying out the fraudulent groundwork used to justify invading (although I think some of the proponents actually believed their reasoning, at the time; i.e. I don't think they deliberately lied).

Once those initial goals were achieved (WMD threat neutralized (ha!), Saddam captured), I don't understand the need for further occupation. OK, stick around to help out with elections. But then? Stick around at Iraq's Gov't request to help out with security? For how long?

At the moment, I feel like we are a visiting bouncer in a bar not our own - having just broken up a fistfight. I've got a Sunni by the scruff of the neck, a Shia in a hammer-lock, and I'm staring down a Kurd in the doorway.

I just wanna leave this joint and have a cold beer, but if I let go right now, these 3 (and others) will burn the place down, I'm quite sure. Do I let them go, anyway? What do I do?