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Military solutions
If what we're waiting for in Iraq is an Iraqi army, security force, whatever you want to call it, that can effectively fight the insurgency in our absence, then we're saying that we expect the fighting to continue after we're gone. If, in the best case scenario, we were to suddenly find that the Iraqi military is strong enough to take over, then how long will it be before someone in that military will rise to the top and take over, and we'll once again see a beribboned monster taking over in that country? It's going to be Saddam all over again, and that's our best-case scenario? I say get out now when both sides are weak; maybe they'll find common ground and a political, rather than a military, solution.