The government needs to have power, that is how they will stay in power. We NEED the democratically elected government to stay in power, to prevent a fundamentalist regime from taking over and all the bad things that the president says he is preventing from happening from happening. Nobody wants Iraq to turn into a taliban like terrorist supporting state. The way to prevent that is for the constitutional democracy government in power to prevail.

How do we keep the current government in power?

Bush says we put in more troops and prop it up with US power. That is totally wrong.

What we need to do is show the Iraqi people that their government is autonomous to the USA. The Iraqi people do not like us. The fact that most of them justify attacks on America is evidence of this. The presence of US troops is disruptive, even caustic to support of the current government by the people of Iraq. We need to withdraw and let the current government stand up. When it becomes clear that the current government can stand on it's own and will not fall because of car bombs, the the reasons for bombings will stop and the bombs will stop.

To do this, we need to get out, but support the current government as much as possible with arms, intelligence, and training of Iraqi special forces to be held outside of Iraq.