A lot of them think we can just pull out of Iraq and it makes no difference just like we did in Viet Nam...just yank ourselves out no matter what the consequences.

Besides everything else, we will have another huge humanitarian problem on our hands if Baghdad collapses.

The problem today is that the United States does not have an endless well of 'national credit' to draw from to magically 'fix' the problems that it creates.

It has spent billions in Iraq with financed money, the cost of gas is flying through the roof, environmentalists back home in places like Alaska have retarded the production of domestic oil, the enemy has gotten inside the gates, our domestic economy is stalling, the world is about to go through a cataclysmic convulsion due to global warming and overpopulation, people are starving to death and running out of fresh water and are faced with flooding by salt water all over the world...and the American people want to retreat on Iraq and complain about the rising cost of fuel.  read more »