Akenaton--I would humbly submit that, if your assessment is correct, we would have been out of there a long time ago--

The war's popularity was never very solid, and is even less so now--the Bush Administration is aware of nothing if not popular perception, and they know that their drop in approval ratings, from the 80s post 9-11, to the toilet, where they are now, is directly related to the Iraq debacle--so where is the percentage in stayng there??

Pure and simple, they don't know how to get us out of there. If they could have, they would have.