This is unacceptable

And undoable:

Officials say the administration has begun to look at the costs of maintaining a force of roughly 50,000 troops there for years to come, roughly the size of the American presence maintained in the Philippines and Korea for decades after those conflicts.

The situations are not really analogous. Most Iraqis, unlike many Filipinos then and most South Koreans still, don't want us there. President Gore would never have fucked up this royally.