Mr. President, Democratic Leadership: There Is No Such Thing as Iraq

[Ibby]

The only outcome that will not end in wholesale genocide is american-facilitated partition and subsequent withdrawal. And that will still probably end in massive sectarian violence, as it did in India/Pakistan. Truly, now that we've broken it, there's nothing we can do to fix it except install a military dictatorship every bit as bad as saddam's.

What would you have us do, UG? Sit there in Iraq for another generation or two, until every single person that hates america for it gives up and dies of old age? Our staying doesn't help a single iraqi, and our leaving won't hurt a single american. There will be civil war, already is civil war, whether we stay or not. Our leaving won't change that. It may get worse, but it will happen either way. We need to look out for america's interest in this case, as much as I hate to say it. I have no love for america, no more than I have for every other place - but I'm still more pro-america than you are on this, UG. You want us to stay, to no positive end, spending countless dollars and ending the lives of many of america's finest men and women in uniform.

We must leave, now.