The way out is simple

Watched Bremer and General Sanchez,(how the hell many 4 stars do we have?) on TV saying there are only "a few thousand" Iraqis that are fighting us bringing them democracy. Even if they are low-balling that figure and it's really, say, 10,000 all we have to do is pull out and let the 24,990,000 majority establish democracy on their own.
Instead we're talking about increasing our numbers of troops by another 25,000 or so. If it really takes 135,000+ troops to "pacify" that few thousand "insurgents" they must be tougher and better trained than our "professional" military. Actually the "insurgents" are seriously out-numbered by the "contractors".

conventional fire power will make a difference.

They clearly outnumber us....

which they should be, given that they don't have to fight "by the rules!" But you're right--there wouldn't be any insurgents if they had no one to fight!

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rocknation

The reconstruction of Iraq cannot take place under US military occupation, it cannot happen at gunpoint. It cannot truly begin until the US has ceded military control.

We are faced with the fulfillment of the prediction that veteran US intelligence officials made before the war that: "An invasion of Iraq would ensure overflowing recruitment centers for terrorists into the indefinite future."

"Bring Them Home Now!" does not mean "Put a Light Blue (UN) Helmet on Our Troops and Give the US Command in Iraq More Troops From Other Countries To Continue the Occupation With!" It means just what it says. Our troops will not be any safer there, or doing anything more useful, if UN approval is just a fig leaf to cover up a continued US occupation.