[theapportioner]

I think Sheehan is confounding the rightness or wrongness of going to war, with the rightness or wrongness of staying there to fix things up.

One can compare it to surgery. It may not be right to do, say, bariatric surgery on someone who is only slightly overweight. But once the surgery is in progress or complete, it would also be wrong to abandon the patient on the operating table, or deny that patient appropriate postoperative care.

Or, two wrongs don't make a right.

If I were Mrs. Sheehan, I would not demand that troops be pulled out prematurely, but that certain people should be impeached for their actions in going to war in the first place.