[prairiebreeze]

Time will tell, and until then I just won't jump on your pessimistic bandwagon. Leaving fate to the winds in that area of the world and in this day and age, seems very unwise....It's just what Clinton did though.

Prairie

[FirstPrinciple]

All I am saying is that it wouldn't make a dime worth of difference in the long run. People there have mentality of Stone Agers. Our presence will only delay formation of dictatorships there. All we have done is postponed another 9/11 for maybe 5-10 years.

[Gippers Brigade]

The DemocRATS just don't get it, do they? I'm just thankful we didn't launch this just and noble war for something as trivial as WMD or connections to OBL, but rather for two things much more important, payback for the '88 massacre of the Kurds and to promote a traditional Islamic democracy.