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The course is intended to liberate Iraq and install and Iraqi constitutional democracy. That has been very clear since day one. Bush has said he will not exit until the above is accomplished. So the exit plan was always to be when the job was done. It appears there have been some changes as there always are in war and nation building. He has always been clear. Americans have short attention spans and if they don't get what they want quickly they want to abandon their resposibility and pretend it never existed. Much like in divorce and abortion ,promise on thing and do another when the reality sets in that anything worth doing is going to be hard. Also that sometimes you make decisions that don't turn out how you hoped but that is not an exuse to run or take the easy way out. It's hard for libs to understand because they are used to saying one thing then doing another. The fact that someone does what they say they will do and sticks to it is baffling to the flakes on the left.