The economy

[Cracker]

He didn't inherit this mess. That is liberal bullshit.

I disagree. He inherited a mess and he's doing a fine job of making it worse.

Back to your comment about the Iraq war, if mass graves were the criteria for our going to war, we'd be (or would have been) involved in conflicts elsewhere (Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia...). It begs the question why Iraq? Oil? Getting a foothold next to Iran? I don't think our government did it out of the goodness of their collective hearts.

Regardless, once we committed troops there, IMO, we need to win it. I don't support a hasty withdrawal.

You think we don't have troops in all those places? We are all over the world.

The government and the troops are different entities. The government doesn't actually fight any wars. The troops, the boys and girls of this country, have reason enough to lay their lives on the line. We aren't privy to everything they know. We don't see what they see. We don't freeze our asses off or sweat out every drop of our moisture for the people of other nations who can't seem to help themselves. We don't leave our families and lives behind to fight in other men's wars. We just sit home and speculate.

I was an Army wife during OIF after the twin towers came down. I have played this war game for almost ten years now. I have to believe in what we are doing because it has irrevocably changed my life, and the lives of my family, in more ways than I care to discuss. I leave the business of foreign affairs to government officials. It really doesn't have that much to do with the actual actions on the ground.

I do know our president was still golfing in Hawaii as of yesterday. Apparently he isn't losing any sleep over it.