Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin..

I don’t mean to be too in your face, but I’m not sure I agree with this. Anyhow, thanks for sharing and I think I’ll come to this blog more often.

Cutting and running is in fact exactly what we’re doing. That’s bush’s plan at this point. There’s no more troops! This whole “turn it over to Iraqis” thing? It equals “draw down & retreat to hardened permanent bases in effort to maintain control of natural resources and political process.”

Ultimately, we need troops. If you’re so into the war, GO. Joint the Army. Go to Iraq.

Comment by SiriusA #78

SiriusA,

…Thus, critical thinking is NOT their strong suit…

Why are there only two choices? Why is everything either black OR white? It seems to me that the rhetoric you wonderful, large-brained conservatives spout forces every issue into two choices. This OR that. Us OR them. Fight OR run.

This is how intelligent people attack a challenging problem: they gather allies, discuss options, build consensus and then throw everything they have against the problem. Want to know a war for freedom that was won this way? The American Revolution. We sought help from the Dutch. From the French. From each and every colony. And then the founders did something incredibly brave: they signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. This was, essentially, a death sentence for treason should the British get hold of them. That’s why John Hancock’s signature is so large — he wanted the King to read it easily.

Where’s that level of courage from OUR leaders? Where is that kind of dedication to SOLVING this problem rather than BLAMING it on others?

Again, were Bush and Cheney the kind of leaders we had at the founding of this nation you’d be pledging allegiance to the English Queen and driving down the left side of the Cheney Motorway.

Patriots fight for PRINCIPALS, not for PRIDE and PERSONAL GAIN.

Comment by Lovable little fuzzball* 370

…It must be Sadie Hawkins day…

…yeeehaaaa!!!!

Comment by I-RIGHT-I #34

…Because inbred morons like IRI…

…and hate the fact that so many “darkies” are doing so much better than his/her racist, al Cracker inbred a*s!

Listen you loser libs:No matter what the cost were not going to cut and run like you loser libs want to.As for soldier injuries;what do you think all those V.A.hospitals are for.I guess you’d rather house the homeless there.You libs are socilist losers.

Cut and run from what? The quagmire your incompetent leaders have put us in? Only a true moron refuses to back down when he is so obviously beaten. It’s too bad you don’t spend your energy educating yourselves, rather than flaming the people who were right all along.

You Reconstruct

You Stupid!!!

Especially if the cost is failure.

Stiglitz: My moderate estimate is about $4 million. For this group alone there will be a total cost of $35 billion that nobody is talking about. But look at the broader picture: The Veterans Administration originally projected that roughly 23,000 veterans returning from Iraq would seek medical care last year. But in June 2005, it revised this number to an estimated 103,000. No wonder the Veterans Administration had to appeal Congress for emergency funding of $1.5 billion last year.

SPIEGEL: If this is a $1 trillion war, why couldn’t the US provide its soldiers with safer body armor and better protected vehicles?

STIGLITZ: Obviously, the US can afford to pay for body armor. Rumsfeld, our Secretary of Defense, said you have to fight with the armor you have, but that’s unconscionable. The military is focusing only on the short run costs. If they don’t provide appropriate body armor, they save some money today, but the healthcare cost is going to be the future for some other president down the line. I view that as both fiscally and morally irresponsible.

“Just Fine” eh FuzzBall?