And they make no bones about it.

It is time for the United States to leave Iraq, without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly exit.

And for all the editorial attempts to whitewash it, the "negotiated settlement" to the war in Iraq is nothing more than a call to negotiate the terms under which the United States will surrender. And the editorial also fails to explain how withdrawal and retrenchment from Iraq proper will keep al-Qaeda from following the troops to wherever they go -- be that Kurdistan, Kuwait, or Kansas.

The only up-sides I can see to this outcome will be burqas for Maureen Dowd and Rosie O'Donnell.