Aside from packing our bags and saying, "Good Luck", a scenario that would make the U. $. look even more rediculous than it already does, there seems to be no way out of this. Iraq is turning into another Vietnam. This was easily forseeable and was predicted by many before Mr. Bush, in his enlightened wisdom, decided to invade this country that has no wmd, no link to 9/11 and no nuke program.
Iraq, like most other countries in that part of the world, is a powderkeg of smoldering ethnic and religious conflict. It is probably incapable of sustaining what we would call democracy for any length of time. It wasn't even one country before British colonialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was three different countries, with the Kurds in the north, called "Kurdistan", the Sunis in the middle and the Shiites in the south. (I don't know what the middle and the south were called.)
President Bush has set, in stone, June 30 as the date for U. $. pullout of Iraq, primarily because it gives him political cover leading up to the election in November. (He doesn't want reports of marines getting killed there in the days prior to the election, reports like the one we heard this morning about 12 marines' deaths there. He correctly calculates that the voting public in certain key electoral regions of the U.$. has an attention span and memory too short to remember the reports we're hearing now). If the U. $. truly pulls out on that date, there will be civil war and ethnic cleansing between the shiite muslims and sunni muslims, ancient historical enemies of each other. It will be a blood bath.
Oh well, Mr. Cheney's former company, Halliburton, is happy. That's the company that made billions in U. $. tax dollars to "rebuild" Iraq over the last year, after our bombs stopped falling.