Let me say here we have a moral and ethical responsibility here. We effectively have created a situation that has driven over 2 million out of 27 million Iraqis out of the country. It has displaced 2 million more Iraqis. According to Oxfam – and it is anybody’s guess as to what the real number is – we have pushed 8 million Iraqis out of that population into dire poverty or constant insecurity.
No one knows how many people have been killed, but at this point it has to approach 100,000 Iraqis, and the number of wounded, which no one can count, is at leastseveral times more. Our legacy, if we abandon Iraq, will not be quick or easy; it will be one of lasting suffering over five to 10 years.
He goes on to make a political/PR point that brings up some problems:
And the region and the world will be far more forgiving of any failures in rushing out or having to leave if we show that we have at least tried down to the last point.
Well, what is the "last point" and who defines it?
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