Let's leave Iraq now:

"It clearly is time for Britain and the United States to leave Iraq. The coalition has entered a phase of profound confusion about what the intervention is supposed to accomplish, and greater confusion about the validity of the political and military means being employed.

The scheduled end-of-January election still offers a chance to leave on non-catastrophic terms. And it is probably the last chance. Yet the possibility this will be seized by Washington and London is negligible."