Let's get out of Iraq's civil war

In her Jan. 19 column regarding her recent trip to Iraq, Michelle Malkin wrote, “We are fighting a war of the fleas — not just Sunni terrorists and Shiite death squads, but multiple home-grown and foreign operators, street gangs, organized crime and freelance jihadis conducting ambushes, extrajudicial killings, sectarian attacks, vehicle bombings and sabotage against American coalition and Iraqi forces.” Isn't this is what is commonly described as a civil war? What further good can we accomplish there, save for more American GIs brought home in boxes? Haven't we accomplished all that we could by overthrowing Saddam Hussein and his bloody cohorts? What is next on our agenda, besides taking over their oilfields? Establish a democracy? It's never going to happen in that unstable part of the world. Didn't we learn our lesson in Vietnam? There are still grieving wives and parents lamenting that fiasco. Let's give serious thought to the new Congress' agenda and save face while we still can. Chick DeCicco, Hammonton - Atlantic City Press, Febrary 2, 2007