The US administration would like to be completely out of Iraq but they persist in the belief that they need to stay and fix everything - which of course, they never will. There's no question that the reasons for invading Iraq (the second time, not when Kuwait was rescued) were false. The US administration of the time purposely confused the situation in Iraq with that of Al Queada in Afghanistan. As for the 50000 "military advisors" left in Iraq - that is such a large number that it will likely become a political issue for the current or the next US president. Most people expect that "withdrawal" does not mean 50000 staying behind.

Exactly what has been gained by spending billions of dollars of tax payer's money and the loss of American life by George Bush's little adventurism? Have any lessons been learned or are politicians doomed to repeat king George"s little mistake in the future? Vietnam should have taught the politicians a lesson but it did not. Perhaps politicians don't feel the pain and suffering because they sit in their plush offices and send someone else's sons and daughters off to suffer and die