As someone who has been against this war from the beginning, I fear a direct pull out to be a poorly conceived idea. This plan is a good starting point and should be discussed thoroughly by our legislative leaders.

Shades of Vietnam! Remember? “Troops, troops, send more troops!” That was the
battle cry. After 50,000 American deaths, the public wouldn’t stand for any more.
How many will die this time before Bush et. al. get the message?

The American people voted for the Democrats to get us out of Iraq. They have the power of the purse and can cut off funding to encourage the President to bring the troops home within 3 to 6 months. If the Democrats do not deliver, they will get a "thumping" in two years. We need more country and less empire. Don't worry about Iraq, worry about the financial disaster this multi-year never ending war has done to America.

When you go to war over a made up lie by PM Blair and president Bush they're only one way to get out honorablely that is to load everyone ass up and get the hell out of Iraqi. They are no way will this invasion,and invading of another country to go down as a high point in American history it will be consider a little Hilter and longer we stay

More troops = more senseless killing on both sides. The rest of the Arab countries in the area want nothing to do with any plan the US has to offer. Now that Civil war is in full bloom, Us solutions are as useless now as they were at the beginning of the war.Stop funding the war now.Declare Victory and leave. Then Impeach and imprison the assholes that got us into this. And no you will not control the Oil, that belongs to the Iraq people.

We did a direct and sudden pullout from Vietnam and they have survived and are prospering. Bush just said so and he thinks it's wonderful. By the same token his logic could be appropos for Iraq.
No matter what is done the American people want out and five to 25 more years of this mess may not only delay the Vietnam situation from happening in Iraq but may destroy Iraq beyond all repair, including all of the middle east. It may severly damage or destroy America beyond all repair. America is now thanks to Bush and the repubs a deeply divided and fractured country. AND, staying there much longer is just one more example of the Bush Gov't NOT listening to the American people. This Baker Bush strategy just sounds like another attempt to preserve dubya's legacy and I don't give a damn about Bush or his entire family. I just want all of them to go live in Paraguay. I am sick of what this one family has done to our beloved America, our troops and the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families.

George Bush is a dysfunctional human being. The sooner America is rid of him and his entire family the sooner we can all begin the process of putting the world back together again, via DIPLOMACY. Netanyahu and the neocons won't like this approach but then they never like anything which makes me fear for Israel as well.

It's just terrible that the current occupant and the entire repub party is full of chickenhawks and warhawks.

Give peace a chance

Only diplomacy, never war

Cheney, Rove & co. are upping the bet against the dems with the huge military/Iraq funding request, backing them into the familiar fearmongering, 9/11 corner. Anyone out there have a definition of victory? Is it a WWII victory? Have any chicken-hawks learned that Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War and stateless terrorism made WWII victory meaningless? Or have our christian-fascists deluded themselves into thinking that the Grenada, Haiti and Panama invasions/coups of small, resource poor, backyard countries work on resource rich, non-homogenous countries on the other side of the globe? Maybe their pause on Iran and N. Korea with known WMD shows some learning.

I thought Baker had more substance than this. Gee...sure sounds "good" on paper. Talk about pie-in-the-sky rhetoric that means nothing, and is misguided at best....

I have mixed feelings about solutions for this mess in Iraq. I would just like to remind people though, we allowed this idiot of a president to get us into this mess. Deceived or not, we allowed him to bring us where we are at this point in history. Imagine what response we might get from the Iraqi people if we acknowledged that we royally fucked up. We want to help fix this mess, but yes we royally fucked up. Perhaps they might be more willing to accept our help.