Remember the reasons we were told we had to invade? WMDs and the big threat of Saddam Hussein?

Well, Saddam is taking a dirt nap now and, well, we know there are no WMDs left in Iraq now. Let's just declare Mission Accomplished and let the Iraqis sort their own problems out.

Bush can even keep the banner.

Well, it has only been five years and there's so much to talk about, it must have slipped their minion minds. Why are we still there? Well, duh, because the Bush administration shut down all our bases in Saudi Arabia and opened up new ones in Iraq... wonderful welcome and all, haven't they mentioned how the natives shower our bases with flowers everyday? We liberated then, you know, it's a great place to plant our middle east strategic defenses.

The Senators all know we are sunk in up to our eyeballs in those new bases, so there's no point in upsetting the American people and telling them that we built them there; why mention the 400 square mile Air base we built right in the heart of the Sunni triangle? People might ask embarrassing questions, like, why we decided the heart of the Sunni triangle was the right place to plant the world's busiest airport. It's best to just not talk about it.

400 square mile Air Base in the Sunni Triangle? Biggest base I know of is in Fallujah, but falls well short of 400 square miles....and busiest airport in the world? All the other large bases aren't in the Sunni triangle. Got a link, because I fly over that area every other night...for hours on end, and must be missing it when I look out the windows.

Perhaps the Senators didn't ask...because their info is a little more accurate than yours.