Why Stay in Iraq?

Evidently, the war is about bragging rights and recruiting.

Tony Snow explains that the White House can only release the parts of the NIE report it wants because the parts the Dems want released would hurt us. He then goes on to explain the new rationale for the war:

Mr. Snow said the report confirms the importance of the war in Iraq as a bulwark against terrorists. “Iraq has become, for them, the battleground,” he said. “If they lose, they lose their bragging rights. They lose their ability to recruit.”

We are in football season, after all.