A Minor Correction - A Moral Resposibility

I want to clear up one little flaw in my argument from last night. A minor thing really, but large in its glaring necessity.

The United States does have a moral responsibility to remain in Iraq only if the goal is to repair the mess they made by invading a sovereign nation without cause and justification only if it is also the will of the Iraqi people. Many will (and have) argued that the common Iraqi on the street "welcomes the US soldiers."

Of course, as anyone could tell you, the common Iraqi on the street has no more influence of the social and political direction than does the so-called dually elected government of Iraq or the Congress of the United States.

Therefore, lacking the will of the Iraqi people, those that have control of the social and political direction of the country, the United States lacks any moral justification to remain in the country, for doing so would also be an admission that the government of the United States, under the current administration made a mistake, and that is an admission that President George W. Bush will never make.