That's what the Democrats want to do in Iraq.  And while the wisdom of re-invading that country may have been questionable, the fact of the matter is that most of the very folks who today call for cut-and-run were on board at the time: John "I was for the war before I was against it" Kerry, Mrs. Clinton, gave speeches outlining the need for action, and followed through by voting in favor.  Now they think it's time to go, and they use all the usual excuses:  I didn't know, It was misrepresented, Bush lied, and so on.

Here's an example of why these gutless wonders are on the wrong track:

Insurgents rigged a girls’ school under construction near Baghdad with explosives, building artillery shells into the walls and ceilings, in a plan that would have killed scores of children, a US general said yesterday.

“We found artillery shells that were being literally built into the ceiling,” said Major General William Caldwell, the senior US military spokesman in Iraq. “We found artillery shells, again all hooked up with wires, being built into the floors. We found propane tanks – two very large propane tanks – built into the floors under the stairwells.”

Ahem.  Who found this atrocity, Mrs. Clinton?  Why, it appears to have been the very folks you want to force to run away.  Mrs. Pelosi?  Harry?  Any illuminating commentary on this?

Al-Qaeda has not balked at wantonly killing children before, even using two small boys as camouflage to smuggle a car bomb past an American checkpoint in a Shia area of Baghdad and then blowing them up with the device.

Obviously, there must be some mistake, because everybody knows that Al-Qaeda has never been involved in Iraq.  The Democrats tell us that every day.  And it's so tempting to believe them, rather than Americans on the ground over there, now isn't it?