Just political...the rest of the 50 thousand soldiers who are always combat ready, along with private contractors, will stay there for along time...one interview I saw was until the year 2020.

It is so obvious whom stirring up trouble ,bombing poor Iraqi's , it's own neighbor Sonni , you guessed right .

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