What if they gave a war...

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.. and didn't have a place to fight it?

Iraq Cabinet Approves SOFA

The Bush administration intended the SOFA process to entrench the occupation. Instead it gave the Iraqi government the means to end it. And that's the best-possible way for the war to end: with the Iraqi government -- the one we've disingenuously told the world we're in Iraq to support -- showing its political maturation to get us out the day after tomorrow. And out actually means out. The SOFA demands that every last U.S. serviceman is on a plane by December 31, 2011. Obama's plan for a 30,000-troop residual force? Officially overtaken by events. As I say, the impact of this appears not to have sunken in. The Iraqis have forced an end to the war.

No residual force, no permanent bases, everyone pack up and return to your permanent station (if you need help remembering where that is, consult the DOD phone book.)

I'm waiting for the inevitable neocon demands that we ignore the elected representative government of Iraq and keep our legions troops in place to counter the threat of the Persians Iranians. Luckily, we have a President-elect who understands our quarrel is with a bunch of lunatics currently holed up in Pakistan.