Time for Exit Strategy out of Iraq say Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03309/236583.stm

The especially cruel loss Sunday of 16 American soldiers on their way to a break from their service in Iraq was a more shocking example of the general bad news coming from the war there.

That bad news raises a more profound question for Americans -- and one that is made no easier to resolve by the heightened politicization of the subject by the presidential campaign.

The question is, how much blood and gold is the United States prepared to spend to pursue the postwar occupation and presumed rebuilding of Iraq?

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At the same time, in terms of both human and financial costs, the Post-Gazette believes that it's now past time for the administration to develop a timetable for bringing this affair to an end. It is hard to imagine that the American people will tolerate the idea of U.S. troops in Iraq until 2013 and costs of at least $200 billion, two of the current projections.

Near bottom they contrast the Bushies won't admit they made a mistake since it might cost them at the ballot box, to LBJ opting not to run.