I would be surprised if the cuts are that dramatic by 2006, as the country is highly unstable and the prospects of turning it around that fast appear bleak. I hope Dawgball is right and the troops come home but I hope they are not deployed again on false and misleading information and I would surely hope if they are deployed again that the administration will at least have a strategy in place that is not scattered brained like the one used in Iraq. If we leave Iraq by 06 I would wager that the country will turn into a huge civil war that will eventually be won by a hard line religious sect that will encourage terror and create even more unstability within the region.