They don't have to come there before we leave.  We cannot go find them all unless we believe it is our right to invade every country on earth on the possibioity they may have terrorists residing within their borders.  The terrorist attacks will never stop in Iraq as long as our troops are there.  Never.  We can reduce them, we can limit their impact, but we cannot stop them and all the saber rattling in the world will not make it so. 

What you propose is not an exit strategy, it is permanent occupation.  That is an option that has never been discussed or proposed by our government officials.  Admission that such is in fact a possibility will create public sentiment that is over 80% anti-war and will result in the recall of our forces within 1 year of an official statement considering the possibility being made. 

An exit strategy is required.  It need not have an absolute deadline, but it requires a realistic timeframe and must list attainable conditions that will result in withdrawal with Iraq being a self-sustaining soverign nation.  The longer the administration fails to provide this the more and more support for our presence in Iraq will erode.  Rhetoric about what we should think as a nation and how we should support this action without question while trusting the administration to do what is best is unreasonable, unrealistic, and will not be tolerated by the American people as a whole for much longer. It is little more than hortatory fluff.  There is a deepening crisis of faith over this war and the balance is tipping toward pulling the plug.  Lack of direction and a clear plan for the future is what is driving this change in public opinion and the blame rests with the adminstration for failing to provide that - not the "liberal media", not the blogosphere, not Dick Durbin, or any other democrat. Speaking in generalities carried support this far, but that dog won't hunt anymore - specifics are what is being asked for, and soon they will be demanded.  Bush and his advisors need only look in the mirror to see who is responsible for this shift away from support for they surely have heard the whispers of these doubts growing for some time. 

Failure in this arena could very well tip the political balance back toward the democrats.  The tide of  support is ebbing and unless the administration recognizes this and addresses the concerns being expressed point for point in the manner they are being expressed he will lead the republican party right back into the same place they were in in the early 1990s.