Withdrawing From Iraq Immediately Won't Change the World Situation One Bit: Americans Will Continue to Die

It's amazing that people assume that if we pulled out of Iraq immediately that the violence would stop and Americans would cease being killed by terrorists, both in foreign lands and in our own lands. That's not what would happen. History proves it.

To illustrate that point, let's take a look at how many Americans have died and been maimed since the jihaddis declared war on us before we realized we were in a war. I've also included figures for the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

1993 World Trade Center Bombing---------6 dead, >1,000 wounded
1/25/93 Shooting at CIA HQ------------------2 dead, 3 wounded
1998 Embassy Bombings--------------------12 dead, unknown number of wounded
Khobar Tower Bombings--------------------19 dead, 24 wounded
2000 USS Cole Bombing--------------------17 dead, 39 wounded
9/11 Terror Attacks------------------------2,902 dead, >10,000 wounded/sick
Afghan War*----------------------------------329 dead, 893 wounded
Iraq War*------------------------------------2,974 dead, >19,773 wounded
*As of 9/5/06

Totals:
6, 261 dead Americans
>31,732 wounded Americans

All of this due to the jihaddis deciding to murder people to protest U.S. foreign policy decisions.

They won't stop once the war in Iraq is over. They've already been killing Americans for over ten years...both here and over there, and before we went after Iraq and Afghanistan. And the number would be worse if we included all the 1980's hijackings of airliners, passenger ferries and bombings, such as the 1986 Berlin nightclub bombing and Pan-Am Flight 103.

A pullout from Iraq now would simply be a signal to the terrorists that the old target was taken down and a new one put up in it's place.

Honestly, how long after a pull-out would it be before an Iraq War jihaddi walked into a New York cafe with an explosive belt and blew himself to hell and brought the war to our streets? It would only take one incident like that to prove that the "fight terrorism over there to keep it from coming over here" crowd was right. ONE.

As much pain as the Iraq War has caused here, we can't leave until the Iraqi government is strong enough to stand alone and rely on it's own resources to secure itself.