>Not to mention our moral responsibility to ensure Iraqi security is ready to take over first. Whether or not we should have, we did create this mess and we owe it to the Iraqi people to help them clean it up. It's in our best interests both morally and politically and for national security to do so. When their government or their people (a mass majority) ask us to leave, then we leave.
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Yes. We skipped out on Vietnam after years of promising to stay and fight (right or wrong). The death toll during the war was small compared to the death toll after we left when South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia became bloodbaths.