Agreed. I don't think the Democratic party truly has a read on the electorate, but enough intuition to bar total non-funding. I still think their actions will come back to haunt them, though maybe not until 2012, when the electorate realizes what has been done.
If they are successful in forcing a withdrawal, it will be on or about that time that we will be going back to finish what we should have. With even less trust from the citizenry of Iraq to "help" us on our way.
They mistrusted us this time after so many were killed when W's father suggested that we would help them if they started a revolution, then we just left them to die rather than backing up the word of the US. If we leave before we have given them stability as we promised, if we turn away from them again it will only make it that much more difficult to gain their trust when we are forced to return.