THEY'RE NEEDED IN SYRIA ANYWAY (via Doug Sitkin):

Powell Says U.S. Will Withdraw Troops From Iraq if New Government Makes Request (STEVEN R. WEISMAN and WARREN HOGE, 5/15/04, NY Times)

Here's an issue where you can see just how delusional the neocons are, as they insist they we could not just leave because we were asked to. Are they proposing that we fight 20+ million Iraqis and the new regime we helped install? Such would be a completely illegitimate war.