I'm sorry, perhaps I have misrepresented myself, I am not one of those "it was the wrong thing to do" types. I supported the war, I STILL do, and I am SICK of it. I am sure you are as well, I mean, wouldn't we ALL want it to be over by now? I'm not blaming ANYONE, sh*t just happens, but I am saying that if _I_ am sick of it, I can imagine a swing voter (who is not very principled) is sicker than I am, and would easily allow that to change his vote.
If we leave Iraq the war will not be over. These people are not going away, they want us dead.
"I'm sorry, perhaps I have misrepresented myself, I am not one of those "it was the wrong thing to do" types. I supported the war, I STILL do, and I am SICK of it. I am sure you are as well, I mean, wouldn't we ALL want it to be over by now? I'm not blaming ANYONE, sh*t just happens, but I am saying that if _I_ am sick of it, I can imagine a swing voter (who is not very principled) is sicker than I am, and would easily allow that to change his vote."
The thing is, it won't be over, this isn't something like wars of the past. We can't negotiate with the terrorists and have peace eventually---they hate us, they see us as infidels and their demented plan is to take over the world, they want to be in the White House--this was something said by them in their training tapes. So while everyone hates the war on terror, don't expect it to be over. These people are not going to stop unless we stop them. This should have been made more clear to the American people, and I really don't think it ever was, not good enough IMO.
"I am SICK of it. I am sure you are as well, I mean, wouldn't we ALL want it to be over by now? I'm not blaming ANYONE, sh*t just happens, but I am saying that if _I_ am sick of it, I can imagine a swing voter (who is not very principled) is sicker than I am, and would easily allow that to change his vote."
Did you know that in one year in just Baghdad...we renovated nearly 500 Schools?
Did you know that a company of Engineers built a 5 mile water pipeline to a farming community within sight of Baghdad that had been waiting for 33 YEARS to have water running from their taps?
Did you know that we are completely rebuilding the infrastructure of Iraq...in some cases from the ground up?
Did you know that an Artillery Battalion commander worked with the Down Syndrome society in Kansas City to supply a privately run school for children with Downs Syndrome in Baaghdad? His soldiers also helped renovate the school.
I'll just make a guess that you are totally surprised that these kinds of things and more are going on in Iraq AS WE SPEAK.
If you want to be "sick" of anything...be "sick" of the MSM purposely distorting what myself and 150,000 other soldiers are doing in Iraq on a daily basis.
Get tired of reporters only showing the carnage and NOT the good...which is by far the greater part of what is going on in Iraq.
I want it to be over when our mission over there is complete and not a minute sooner.
I do NOT want to come home for the sake of being homsick and leave people I went far away to help WITHOUT a home to go to.
If a "swing voter" is that uninformed as to what is going on in the world today that he or she will rely on the very limited news the media deigns us fit to understand and comsume...then that "swing voter" doesnt deserve the privelage IMHO.