Greetings. Just a quick note. I've started a new site:

http://www.outofiraqnow.org

It's not certain exactly how this site will be used, but I felt that it was important to get it going. Suggestions are definitely appreciated.

I will be spelling out details of my thinking on this issue, but it is now clear that we are watching, if not a rerun of Vietnam, then at least a sequel -- all the more dangerous for the enormous boost that it has given global terrorism.

Respect for coalition troops in Iraq now requires not that we "stay the course" for a country that in all likelihood is about to undergo either the creation of an Iranian-style theocracy or a civil war, but rather that we bring our troops home -- alive -- as rapidly as possible. Iraq will be a battleground for years and decades to come -- as that region has been throughout most of history. But it must not be our battle any longer.

Future historians will place the blame for the fiasco of this war, but for now it's time that the deaths and injuries of coalition troops in the name of Iraq come to an end.

--Lauren--