My take on it is if we have to stay there to finish it, then we will always have troops over there. The middle east has been at war with itself for years upon years.

I don't see how anything we can do will change that.

So if our troops have to stay there to finish it (ie, set up a government that won't have it's leaders killed by terrorists), then I'm sorry, I just don't see that happening.

I try to be optomistic since I have family and friends over there, but as the days, months, and years progress, I find myself losing hope that they will ever get to come home.

Maybe the next president that comes into office will see things differently than Bush.