It's comical, in a very tragic way, just how badly this war has been fought. We've literally been put in a mess that can't succeed, and now we have to bleed even more (monetarily and, more tragically, in blood) just to get the hell out of it.
I honestly have zero respect for anyone that truly, honestly believes fighting this war is fighting a war on terror. Our own god damned top general in Iraq isn't sure success in Iraq will make us safer. What possible purpose, beyond the now completely debunked WMDs, is there to be in Iraq? I have all the respect in the world for those fighting in Iraq, the ones that will continue to die won't die for nothing (despite what extremists on the left say) because they'll be dying in the name of the U.S. and what it represents, but I'll be damned if their deaths couldn't mean even just a little bit more somewhere else more important, and more impactful on the war on terrorism. Iraq just isn't it, and the chicken hawks that force these young men and women into Iraq on failed ideology and stubborn ego trips are just the lowest forms of life.