Let's get out right now

Polls show that at least two-thirds of Americans want to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

With Osama Bin Laden out of the picture, President Obama now has a unique opportunity to end the Afghanistan fiasco, our longest war ever. Official reason given to invade that country: the Taliban -- originally supported, of course, by the US against the Soviets -- would not hand over Bin Laden to the US. (They probably would have handed him over to another Muslim country.)

If we stop focusing on the question of seeing photos of Bin Laden's body, we can face the dreadful music:

* Coalition military deaths in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 now number 4,770. 4,452 of these are US deaths.

* Coalition military deaths in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011 now number 2,444. 1,570 of these are US deaths.

* The official number of US troops wounded in Iraq is 33,023. Antiwar.com estimates the number to be over 100,000.

* It is a daunting task to try to find out the number of US troops seriously wounded in Afghanistan, but one conservative estimate is 3,420.

* Documented Iraqi civilian deaths from violence are somewhere between 100,693 and 109,990 -- with perhaps 15,000 more from the Wikileaks' Iraq War Logs.

* There are more US mercenaries, 100,00 of them, in Afghanistan and Iraq than US troops.

* It has long been known that Afghanistan is one of the most corrupt countries in the world, if not the worst. Now Wikileaks has uncovered cables from the US embassy in Kabul that say the scale of Afghan government corruption is "overwhelming" with regard to bribery, money laundering and profiting from the drug trade.

* Iraq is almost as bad. In 2010, the watchdog group Transparency International listed Iraq as the fourth most corrupt country in the world, after Afghanistan, Burma (Myanmar) and Somalia.

With the removal of Osama Bin Laden, this moment is one that President Obama cannot miss. History will be very hard on a failure to act now and get out.