Decius wrote:

Elonka wrote:
Works for me. If they want a timetable, there should be a timetable. If they want us to stay, we stay. If they want us to leave, we leave. It's their country, and if the democratically-elected leaders make a request of us, we should honor it. It's their call.

This is one of the most rational things I think I have ever read thus far about the Iraq war. Frankly, they are our allies now. If they request our assistance in dealing with the insurgency then we would be remiss to fail to offer it. We may not have been in the right to create this mess in the first place. However, as they are a democratic government, its now a different deal. The Iraq War just became something it hasn't yet been ... moral.

[ It is rational, and also right, but we shouldn't have had to wait for the Iraqis to ask us to make a plan. Coming up with a few viable exit strategies should've been done *before* the war. I guess, as long as the result is an actual plan for getting us out of there, I won't get too worked up, but lets keep some perspective.

As for calling it moral, i think that's silly. This war will never be moral. I applaud the bipartisan support for an exit plan and not even I am so cynical as to believe it's 100% politcally motivated. Really though, I can only get so excited when people who should have been adamant about requiring these things long ago now come around.

I'm adult enough to permit rational people (of which this community has many) to disagree as to the necessity or "rightness" of this war, but I draw the line at calling it moral in any way, shape or form. Even if Iraq becomes a beacon of democracy, a shining success, the ends don't necessarily justify the means. -k]

RE: CNN.com - Iraqi leaders call for withdrawal schedule