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Just added another one I will never vote for. Flip flopping as hard as Kerry. Problem for people who try to be on both sides of the fence on issues is where it puts the fence post.

Guess someone should of given him this.

U.S. commander points to progress in parts of Iraq (Rats, RINOs, MSM and Al-Qaeda, you’re losing)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846566/posts

HERE are your benchmarks Gov. What the people on the ground are telling you.

Those aren’t benchmarks, those are positive reports.

Benchmarks are those things that tell you what you are trying to accomplish, so that when you DO accomplish them you can show that your plan is working.

It’s like if you jump in your car and drive around, you could stop every hour, take a picture, and say “That’s where I am now”. But that’s just a picture of where you are. A benchmark would be a plan to get somewhere, and then if your picture SHOWED you were where you said you were going, that would be good, and if you were somewhere else, you’d probably want to change direction.

This administration has done a poor job explaining to America what we are trying to accomplish in the details. Sure, we are trying to win the war. But tell us what the specific things are we are trying to accomplish, so we can see that the surge is accomplishing them.

We put more troops there for a REASON. Tell us the reason, and then tell us after a while if we have acheived the results we were hoping for.

I’m ambivalent about where we leave our troops when Iraq is stabilized. If there really is not much fighting, we probably can use some of the big bases we built as a regional force location. But we can do that in any friendly country, so I don’t think we need to commit to a 50-year presence NOW. At some point we can bargain with the Iraq government for long-term things.

Johnnie, and others who talk about all those you will "never vote for". I appreciate hyperbole, and use it all the time. I think Romney is schmuck-like in several ways, including this idiocy. HOWEVER, would you really not vote for a Romney, or a Giuliani, or a McCain...and leave our currently engaged troops to languish with a Hillary or an Obama as their Commander In Chief? You know what Clinton did to the morale of the troops when he cowered as the bodies of US airmen were dragged in the streets of Mogadishu?

I'm with you Johnnie--through the Primaries. But after that, I say choose the best, even if you aren't too pleased.