Quote Originally Posted by tony
What you've stated here is the politics of fear, "If we leave this and that will happen." Fear doesn't motivate me and I'm sorry to say for conservatives but those who are looking for change don't get motivated by fear either. Solutions motivate, bring the troops home, work on domestic security and building our military and it doesn't matter what Iraq does.
QFT it was fear that was used to sell the war to the American people and the American people are only now seeing past it. Iraq was not a threat in 2002.The truth is that since Saddam's Baath party was actually a mutual enemy of Al Qaeda we could have probably used Iraq in some capacity as an ally in the war on terror.

Eventually Iraqis will have to take their country for themselves. A continued US presence will eventually just be a crutch for them. They can blame their problems on the US instead of actually taking initiative to do anything about them. Maybe Iran will have some influence, but whats best for Iraq to have long term stability is probably the support of it's neighbors in the region.