We must stay and deal with the situation in Iraq by all means.

There are now and have been for years quite a few like Conyers who should be retired from Washington - but it is up to the people to get out and vote and show them enough is enough. As for getting our troops out of Iraq it seems to be too soon in my opinion. Maybe Geroge Bush isn't the best President we have had but he is at least trying to finish with an appropriate ending what he started. We might not have been in this position today if his father had followed his gut instincts rather than the UN requirements when we ran Saddam out of Kuwait when he invaded it trying to get more control over oil in this world. We should have stayed then and finished the job. My late husband was in the military and believe me were he still alive and able to he would have been one of the first to volunteer to go help rid the world of that Dictator Saddamm Hussein and to try and bring some normalcy and decency into the lives of the Iraqui people.

I would say I would have to disagree with just about everything you said. Why should we stay in a place supporting a people who dont wants us there and dont care to fight for freedom themselves? They only get mad when their own people get killed. We are dumping billions of dollars into Iraq and more troops and its not getting any better only worse. What happens after we spend the next twenty years there than pull out wont that be a bigger waste of human life than doing it sooner? From the start of this Bush has surrounded himself with yes men and thats all he would listen to even now. He fired Lawrence Lindsay for estimating the cost of the war to be around $200 Billion. We have far passed that number. Its funny that everyone thinks that if we will leave it will than become a civil war but firmly deny that just maybe some of it is a civil war right now. As far as God fearing people, most political right wingers I have met worry more about the money in their bank account than they do about God or their fellow man.

You are exactly right, John Conyers is an old fool. Liberals have away of staying around. To the Iraq war, we have to win this war. There is no other way to defeat the terrorist but to kill them, and destroy area that support them. AlQaeda will not quit just because we leave Iraq. AlQaeda is in Iraq right now. They see this as do or die for them. Let us make it deadly for them. Look we cannot change public opinion over night, but history will prove that we are right.

I agree with you and I'm a wife of a Marine. It's easy for others to say all kinds of things about what is right and what is wrong but unless and until you are living the life, you don't really know what goes on. My husband has been on deployments to Iraq and from what he has seen and experienced so far, it is like what you said. If they pull out the troops now, the country will be in shambles and an all-out civil war. I don't necessarily agree with the war to begin with but what is done is done and to pull out the troops now would be foolish and irresponsible. I think we have to finish what we started whether we like it or not. That is at least the moral responsibility and now, we have to provide humanitarian aid to the Iraqis more than ever. Yes, there are problems getting Iraqis to meet their end of the bargain and we keep missing the datelines. Do I enjoy sending my husband off to deployments? Of course not! He's due to go on another one end of this year. I do not agree with everything that the US government is doing but pulling the troops back now would not be a good idea.

I am sorry RepublicanMenu....I have to disagree w/ you. The Iraqi government is not holding up their end of the Bargain. They are supposed to take over the Security of their country , and it is not happening. For the Safety of our Soldiers ( and my husband is Military ) I say this w/ all my heart.... It is time to get out of Iraq. Civil war has been unfolding right before our very eyes. It's there , it's alive. We need to get our young people out.

I appreciate your point of view. I completely agree with you. I have been there, and seen what we are doing there. Gen Petraeus has the right strategy, and as long as this country doesn't become more anti-war, we will accomplish our ultimate goal in Iraq, which is for the Iraqi government to be self sustaining and a willing partner in the war on terror. The media, and the Democrats will continue to deny the truth regarding the surge, but it is working. The Iraqi military on a daily basis gains strength and accepts further responsibilities. It was just a matter of time before this would happen, and now it appears as though it is happening to a large degree. Given the way Saddam handled his military, the level to which the current Iraqi military has come along is actually surprisingly fast. Saddam was so afraid of a military coup, there essentially was no military in Iraq under Saddam, outside the Fedayeen. That means there was virtually noone with any military leadership experience in Iraq outside the Fedayeen, and we could not trust them. So for the Iraqi military to be as far along as it is to this point is an accomplishment. The successes of the Iraq war are almost countless, and the reasons for going were justified and reasonable. For us to leave now would be a disaster.