The People Want To Leave

I know it's a novel concept to listen to the mere plebes about Iraq, but they are speaking with essentially one voice.

Here's one result from the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that will be released tonight at 6:30 pm ET on Nightly News and MSNBC.com... With the news that Iraq's prime minister wants the US to set a timetable for withdrawal, 60% of registered voters believe it's a good idea for the US to set such a timetable, while 30% say it's a bad idea.

When the people in America want us to leave, and the people in Iraq want us to leave, and the Iraqi government wants us to leave.... you get the idea.

Fred Hiatt asking us to stay so we can rape the country of its oil is not a good enough reason. And just because St. David Petraeus doesn't want a timetable doesn't mean his commanding officer, the President, should allow him that. The days of passing off comprehensive military decision-making to local commanders who have no sense of the big picture is over.