The main point being is maybe bush could have made better decisions. No president in history has ever made all good decisions. Bush did what he thought was right at the time. Bush can't come out and say "I made a mistake" and withdrawl the troops. You have to at least stay and finish what we started. You can't promise Iraq peace and then run out of there with you tail between your legs. Plus I believe that Bush made a good decision in helping Iraq. We brought a known terrorist/dictator to justice. Nobody likes the fact that our troops are over in Iraq being killed. But we are a generous country and the only way that we are going to build healthy relationships with other countries is to show them that we are willing to help out the less fortunate armies againt terrorist dictator's. We will never get completely rid of terrorists. That's impossible. But at least we can help Iraq build a strong enough government to bring the people that are doing the car bombings, suicide bombings, murders, torturing, and all terrorism to justice. Once Iraq has that kind of government set up we can start to pull our troops out of there slowly.

If John Kerry were elected president he would draw the troops out as soon as he could. Which sounds like a good thing, but if we leave now it will look like everything we did in the past 3 years was a mistake. Which is totally false. For example Saddam Huessain. (Sp??) Plus we will look bad to other countries becasue we can't finish a job. And if we don't finish the job and leave early, the government set up now won't be strong enough, and another dictator like Saddam will take over. And if that happens then yes, we would have been over there for nothing.

Sorry this was so long. I hope I answered all of your questions. If you need clarification on anything or want to argue just post it.