ok so before i start getting really really pissed off i am going to inform everybody of a few things. one if we were to pull out of Iraq today or tommorow we would be fucked. no way around it. everybody says that 9-11 could have been prevented and you know what they're right but do you know when we could have prevented it???OVER 20 FUCKEN YEARS AGO!!!during the late 70's early 80's afghanistan was being raided by the soviet union. the american cia sent in covert agents along with weapons to train the afghani(sp.) to fight the russians. do you know who our #1 confidant in afghanistan was during this time OSAMA FUCKEN BIN LADEN!!!!He was our #1 alie in afghanistan rup until the day they drove the russians out. after they drove the russians out and came looking to us for help and what did we do????NOTHING!!!We left afghanistan in a pile of rubble with no ecconomic support system or anything for that matter. it was from then on that the taliban went from liberating militia to middle eastern terrorist group that vowed to destroy the united states. which brings me to my point. we went in there to liberate Iraq from the clutches of an evil tyrant, Saddam Hussein, and give them their country back. We have done that but they are not ready to be left alone yet. President bush is simply doing what most people fail to do every day,learn from the past. President Bush realizes that if we were to pull out today that maybe not tommorow or the next day or next year or 10 years after that but somewhere on down the road that decision will come back and bite america in the ass.