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GW Bush for all his faults is a man who sticks to his word and his friends. Sometimes he should of called his friends onto the carpet and demanded more of them or even cut them loose sooner. GW has also showed patience, maybe too much patience.

Iraq became an incremental problem, as one bad thing led to another. GW was giving time for his policies to work and it took time for them to be shown to be faliures. Nothing becomes apparent overnight, armchair generals often like to use hindsight. When it really became apparent that things had gone to he11 in a handbasket ole GW modified his approach in Iraq and instituted the "Surge." Which for all intents and purposes has been working.

Will any futher President be able to keep their campaign promises and pull all our troops out of Iraq. I don't think so. They will have to be there, like Korea for a long time acting as a stablizing agent in country and in region.

Some people will say that the USA should just pull out of everywhere and come home. However the cost of remaining the leading world power is that we are called upon to maintain world stability with our military presence. There is no other option available for world security, or at least not one that is acceptable to the USA. For the most part if the USA did pull out its military presence the forces of chaos and discord would rise.