Let me repeat your opening post in this thread, PmP:
"with AQ leaders having fled to Pakistan and Sadr disarming his militia, who needs a timetable?.....we can leave now......"
I don't believe you were being intelligent or honest or as I already intimated that you don't know much about the redeployment of troops and materiel. Perhaps I was a bit testy about this most testy of subjects but I do think the ideology behind statements like "we can leave now" exposes insensitivity to the needs of our troops and the responsibilities of our nation.
I can accept that you were just kidding. Me, too.