Well, articles are coming out on the Iraq study group's consensus and it sounds like they're passing the buck.

A overwhelming majority of Americans think Iraq is a civil war and these guys are saying we should stick around until 2008. Even worse, is this caveat:

The panel included a significant caveat for the 2008 goal for troop withdrawals by recommending that commanders should plan to pull out combat units by then unless "unexpected developments" make them decide that such a move would be unwise, the sources said.

So, it leaves these jackasses an excuse to continue their indefinite occupation of Iraq every time the violence worsens, which means we will stay in Iraq because it's a civil war and will only worsen. More wishful thinking, but now that it's bipartisan wishful thinking the neocons have a shield to hide behind as they delay the inevitable withdrawal of troops and catastrophic collapse.

Unless there is some miracle of leadership from Iraq, which seems unlikely since even the Bush administration seems to think Maliki can't find his ass with both hands, this is just going to be a worsening civil war. A week, a month, a year, it doesn't matter when we pull out. It's a civil war, we have no business being there. And if they can use the excuse of worsening violence to keep the troops there, then we'll never leave.