General David Howell Petraeus testified before the Senate today. 

 According to him precipitous withdrawal will cause a genocidal calamity in Iraq.  From what I read this is accurate.  So somebody please explain why we went to war there?!

4000 dead tens of thousands wounded and trillions of dollars spent and the result is a situation so incredibly tenuous that withdrawal will bring about untold suffering and destabilize the entire region.

What threat did Saddam (an Evil Evil man whom the world is well rid of) pose that was comparable to this potential catastrophe?

I agree we seem stuck in Iraq simply because we have moral obligation to the people of Iraq to fix this mess but every moment seems to reinforce the colossal mistake it was to engage in nation building for Iraq.