answer:We haven’t left completely. While the combat guys are coming home, there are still about 50,000 guys still in Iraq (for training and support). We’ll see what happens once all of the training is done and all of our guys are home. I think hindsight is definitely 20/20. I think it was worth it in some ways but not in others. I think we went in for the wrong reasons and without a proper plan for the beginning, middle, and end of our time there. It’s a shame for so many people to have lost their lives, but I think we were able to help the Iraqi people in some ways as well. Earlier this year, the Iraqi people were able to have an election. While there were some things that happened to try to prevent it (car bombs at voting sites), it managed to go off rather well and they were able to elect the 325 members of their council. That council (the Council of Representatives of Iraq) elect the Iraqi Prime Minister and President. I consider that to be a success. Helping them with these elections could help us in the long run (as far as US – Iraq relations go). Another thing that people don’t hear about are things like our units donating supplies to the Iraqi orphanages. Our unit recently collected many different things (clothes, blankets, non-perishable food, etc) and shipped it over to our guys so they could give it to the orphanages. Things like that do make a difference.