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The fact that more American troops have been killed in Iraq then the deaths during the September 11 terrorist attacks should be ringing alarms bells.
Lets have a bit of reality check here and look at what we are trying to achieve.

War declared March 2003:
Our key focus was to make the world a safer place. The aim was to remove possible weapons of mass destruction from stock piles which intelligence information believe were scattered across Iraq and could potentially be used by terrorists.

Today:
No weapons have been found. Instead of admitting a mistake, the Bush administration says that the war has removed a dangerous dictator from power and the world is supposedly a safer place. Instead the focus has moved to restoring democracy.

We have gone off on a tangent, the aim of war was not to restore democracy. There are many countries in the world which are suppressed by dictators some very similar to what was established in Iraq. Should we go on a crusade and fix those countries too? We are re-arranging the deck chair on the Titanic. There is a civil war, casualties continue to rise, no matter how much we re-arrange the government structure there will be no agreement. We should pull out now before there's a blood bath, and a humiliating withdrawal is required. There are actual terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, we should be fighting the terrorists there, not civilians in a civil war that has never been our aim, so lets get back on track.

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