the center for american progress has published a "progressive exit strategy" for iraq called strategic redeployment (pdf).
one of the things i like most about it is that it addresses head-on the fact that we will not be able to sustain our current deployment in iraq past the end of 2006 and certainly not longer than that (see iraq: squaring the circle for more on this). as the paper says, there are no good options anymore, there is only a choice among options trying to find what is the least bad.
i think that the strategic redeployment paper represents an important contribution to the national debate we need to have over iraq.
i hope that progressives can come together to discuss this along with the plans being offered by (in alphabetical order) wes clark, juan cole, russ feingold, Den...
