It's inconceivable that an Al Qaeda linked orgnisation could take over power in Iraq following an American pull-out. The only thing that has given them any possibility of operating has been the American presence.
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Are you for serious? Any bad apple groups in the world will be there..the Russian Mafia, the Mafia Mafia, the Chinese Ton???s, the IRA, and they will all join hands/forces....there is incredible money to be extorted there...

And McCain was not bullying Obama in my opinion. He was bringing up a very serious point that Obama seems clueless about, although I am totally for him domestically. mg