...the Iraq Study Group 2008 regional negotiations & 2008 exit recommendation have been and will continue to be influential because the alternatives to those recommendations look as if they even more costly and unpopular. ================== Take a step back, and look at the overall picture and try and determine what the costs will be by too early a departure from Ir...there is more at stake here than logistics of packing up and going home and internal politics. I have no problem with Iraqi self rule...which should and will happen in time. I have stated my thesis on the matter, I am sure nothing I have posted here is of any significance anyway to what is going to transpire. Just merely a venue to vent. I only hope I am wrong with what I have observed. Time will tell.