Saddam's gone. Which is, in my mind, the principle point of the whole matter for going into Iraq in the first place. Removing Saddam was relatively cheap in blood and treasure.

But we've stayed on to try to rebuild Iraq, a proposition that has been vastly more expensive and more bloody than the actual war was. Yesterday, a new gallup poll was released in which 57% of Iraqi's want US troops out now.  If the Iraqi's don't want us there, then I think we need to seriously look at pulling out come June 30.

For political purposes, we would put up a refferendum in which Iraqi's would vote. If they vote for the US to leave, we leave, otherwise we stay to help. We need to send a message to the Iraqi's that we're not there for our sake. We're there to try to help them. And that we don't have to stay. We lose nothing if we leave. Let them massacre each other for all I care if that's what they want. If they put up another thug that helps terrorists and puts together a WMD program, we reserve the right to come in and replace him too.

I want us to stay and help the Iraqi's. But if they don't want us there, then fine, we can leave. Let them grovel to the UN or something to put the pieces back together. We're not obligated to have our people blown up in suicide bombs or spend billions in tax dollars to build schools and infrastructure for them.