[CaptainCrunch]

I'd like to see how the petition was worded, for all we know the statement on it could be as nebulous as the question posted towards French Voters at the last referendum. It would also be interesting to see what the demographich was on the signee's. For all we know it could be 1000 50 year old national guardsmen who want to go home.

We certainly need more information on how and who distributed the petition.

On your statement, Rouge, I doubt a lot of the troops that are on the ground give a crap about hidden agenda's or why the war was started. They're more concerned with getting the job done and going home. Ask the average soldier about pulling out and leaving the average joe civillian to the tender mercies of the insurgents and you would probably get a violent result.

We might not like the government in place, we might not like the reason the war was started or the U.S. Government. But you don't stop cut and run because its the easy thing to do.

I'm all for a phased withdrawl of the troops once we're sure that the civilian population can be protected competantly by whatever forces the Iraqi government can put into place, and putting pressure on the Iraq government to accelerate the creation and training of its own police and armed forces.

but to just withdraw, leaving a mess that your responsible for, nah.