Iraq = Viet Nam, again?

Lets look at this story coming from, surprisingly- Al Reuters.

No, not the Iraq is like Tet. Although you could make that analogy in that we kicked their @sses almost back to China, and the MSM had everyone believing it was a win for the Commies. Same thing in Iraq, we're winning, they're getting desperate and the MSM (and their fellow Communists up in D.C.) are insisting that we cut and run.


Getting back to the story:
LONDON (Reuters) -
Iraq is vital to the world's future and the West cannot cut and run despite growing anxiety over the relentless bloodshed there, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said on Monday.

Salih, in London for talks with British Prime Minister
Tony Blair and other ministers, voiced concern at the growing pressure on the British and U.S. governments to change direction in Iraq given the heavy death toll among coalition forces and Iraqis.

He stressed that Iraqi forces were gradually taking over responsibility for security but said Iraq needed the "enduring support" of the international community to combat what he called "a difficult onslaught by terrorists."

Asked about a pledge by Australia's opposition to pull the country's troops out of Iraq if it wins the next election, Salih said: "I do believe there is no option for the international community to cut and run."

"The fate of Iraq is vital to the future of the Middle East and the world order," he told reporters.

U.S. military deaths in Iraq in October have reached at least 85, making it the deadliest month for Americans this year and raising pressure on
President George W. Bush before Congressional elections next month in which Republicans could lose majorities in both houses.

Yes, we- the good guys- are winning over there. We don't hear alot about it because the Libs want us to pull out now, so they can declair Iraq a defeat for Bush Co. America.

If we pull out now it will do two things that I can see:

1. Leave Iraq to the tender mercies of Michal Moors 'Minute Men' to behead and torture to death ANYONE that didn't actively help them. Ala Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, and the rest of the blood soaked S.E. Asia that we left hanging.
2. We'll lose any and all credibility we ever had in the Mid-East. We have a history of cutting and running when the cost got too high- from Reagan all the way up to Clinton. They see us as a paper tiger that deserves to be conquered- and we do if we just run away...again.

I don't know what the Iraq answer is, but leaving the Iraqis hanging isn't one of them. I'd also like to remind you that we were in the WW II Axis countries for over 30 years working on their transition to becoming peaceful democracies. ( We may have overdone it in Germany,,,but).