Our not-so-speedy withdrawl

Well, seems the army is making plans for sustaining troop levels in Iraq for at least another four years. Big surprise there. Troop levels could decrease sooner than that, administration officials said. Of course, the weasel words "if certain conditions are achieved" were attached, as always.

What are those conditions? What will it take to satisfy our President Bush? I'd like some concrete idea of what exactly constitutes sufficient victory for these folks, so we don't end up staying indefinitely just because we haven't got any idea what we're after. My guess, though, is that the particular conditions sought by the Neocons will be impossible to achieve given the current strategy, and we'd be better serving ourselves and the general stability of the region by leaving before their crackpot wishes dictate. Until they provide me with more information, that's what I have to believe - it's on them to convince me otherwise.