Its not a matter of them wanting us to stay or leave, but the reasons why we went in there in the first place. Yes, its nice that the Iraqis now have an elected government but the US only really cares if that elected government is pro-US. Our administration would rather have a Pro-US dictatorship than a Anti-US democratically elected government which shows the hipocrisy. We went there on false pretenses, on lies, and that will never change no mater how much you gloss it up with PR.
Not my problem. It shouldn't be our government's problem either. The Bush Administration messed it all up. WHy the hell should the US people have to pay for his mistakes? Why should we tie up our resources, in manpower and capital for Bush's little **** up? That is one of the reasons I am looking forward to the next election. We will be getting rid of Bush and with any luck a Democrat will be president. Then, I hope, we can put our military to use as it should be. AS A FREAKING MILITARY and not a police force.
Yes, it is a sticky situation and the best way to deal with it is to clean our hands from it and hopefully learn from this mistake. I hope next time this sort of crap happens we learn from the mistakes of Vietnam, Korea, and Iraq. We go in, do the objectives, then immediately pull out.