[iconoclast]

Given all that I don't see how VP Cheney was wrong

At the same time he made that statement he was predicting an occupation force about 30,000.

You defend the indefensible.

From the time we turned from the pursuit of al Quaeda our policy has been one misguided, wishful thinking decision after another.

[nairBResal]

That 30000 was the "drawdown" number.

If you think that we will have zero presence in Iraq when all is said and done then you are wrong. The leaders in Iraq will not allow this, for both cya and economic reasons. Just ask any US Senator who is loosing a military base in BRAC.

Also Germany, Japan and South Korea, remember?