Is it Still "Worth It?"

Four more GIs get tossed in the never-going-to-be-able-to-vote-agin pile of "it's-worth-it-but-you-are-dead" noble causes. Today's cartoon by Ann Telnaes hits all the hot buttons:

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North of Baghdad, four U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, raising the U.S. death toll to more than 1,850 since the war in Iraq began. Insurgents appear to have developed more powerful bombs able to pierce newly armored U.S. vehicles.

Talks on the constitution, which broke down before the previous deadline on Monday, prompting an extraordinary session of parliament to amend the law and allow a week longer, remained divided over three fundamental issues -- federalism, the role of Islam and the distribution of revenue from natural resources.

So, the longer we stay in Iraq, the better the terrorists get at killing our guys. And the rationale for staying longer over bringing our troops home sooner is what?