We'll be out of Iraq before 2008

Why? The election, stupid. Bush & Co and the Republican Party know: if we're not out of Iraq by 2008, America will vote both a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress in -- because by that time the vast majority of voters will realize the Iraq adventure was a big mistake, not quite as big as Vietnam, but the biggest foreign policy fuck-up since then. And the Republican Party doesn't want to be punished for a neocon boo-boo. So watch declarations of leaving Iraq sooner rather than later coming sooner rather than later.