I will not vote for anybody who advocates losing in Iraq, period. Anybody who doesn't understand what will happen if we give up in Iraq does not deserve to be CIC, and will weaken our country more then any stupid tax policy or social policy ever could.
I weep for my country if our pain threshold is now 3,000 dead in 4 years. Not that each life isn't important, but if this is our pain threshold, pretty soon, we will be dictated to by Easter Island's army.
Don't think the problem with Iraq is the 3,000 dead. Disappointing yes...The price is too steep?...not for victory. It's the four years and 400 Billion... that's the the problem. Victory seems even more elusive now than it did three years ago. The war is certainly more geopolitically complex than it was in 2003. Is victory guaranteed?...No. is it doable. Yes. As an Iraqi democracy?...probably not. My guess is we gonna have to Diem Maliki and find us an Iraqi sheisskopf that scares the bejabbers out of ALL Iraqis , Sunni, Shia and Kurd. What we need is OUR Neo-Saddam who knows his place. I'm sure he exists. Some Iraqi secular General who is ambitious as Satan.