[HitmanLV]

My point is primarily that the dems just won an election. They are not the CiC, and frankly no closer to the CiC in 2008.

The low threshold for pain on FR is startling. You win some, you lose some. We won't be leaving Iraq in the next 3 months or 6 months.

What mature, clear thinking individual in the service (or on FR for that matter) seriously though the dems would never win an election again?

Nellies.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.
"They are not the CiC, and frankly no closer to the CiC in 2008."

They don't need to be and we don't need to leave Iraq in 6 months for them to gut the military. The DemocRATs now control the checkbook. That's part of their job and they have used withdrawl of funding as a way of abandoning allies before. Our war ends in Iraq when the funding goes. It probably will come here not too long after that.

Michael Frazier