Mission Creep
1. Editors’ Introduction: You Break It, You Buy It
2. Out Now, Ask Questions Later?: Six Challenges for Antiwar Activists
3. Exiting Iraq: Now or Never?
4. The Logistics of Moving the Military Out of Iraq
5. Four Post-Occupation Scenarios
6. Civil War: Inevitable or Not?
8. Why the U.S. May Not Leave Iraq
9. Al Qaeda in Iraq: How Dangerous Is It?
10. Damned if We Do: America’s Moral Obligations
12. Charts and Maps
13. Interviews


Reporting: In Mother Jones‘ Washington, D.C., bureau: Nick Baumann, Bruce Falconer, Laura Rozen, Daniel Schulman, and Jonathan Stein; in Mother Jones‘ San Francisco office: Kiera Butler, Leigh Ferrara, Elizabeth Gettelman, Josh Harkinson, Neha Inamdar, Nicole McClelland, Celia Perry, Rafael Valero, and Daniel Widome. Edited by Dave Gilson.