[Allegra]

Good grief....thank God not everyone is as negative as some of the FReepers I'm seeing post here.

That's the response to a setback? Give up? Throw in the towel? Write it all off as a failure? Well done, MSM!

I sure hope you're in the minority or we're toast as a nation.

I won't give up and I won't stop trying to do the best I can. I hope there are others here who feel the same way.

[Truth29]

Realism and negativity are not the same thing. You will note that I said make what progress that you can, but everyone in theater needs to factor in what has happened in the US.

[roses of sharon]

Don't blame me, I voted straight R, and encouraged all to do the same, but most Republican and Conservatives voters preferred to "send a message" and surrender Iraq to OBL.

The President got the message, and will act accordingly.

It is done, there is no sense in pretending otherwise.

But thank god that Iraqis did get to meet all of you and our troops, get to know what good and decent people we are, and at least now their children cannot be raised on lies about the US. They will now know that we gave lives for them.

At least they will know we tried to help them become a civilized nation. And others in the ME now know the truth about what we were trying to do in Iraq and Afghanistan, they may not admit in now, but the know.

[LibLieSlayer]

Not to worry... we have ALWAYS had these types. More importantly, there are more of us than of "them"!

LLS

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1778, Thomas Paine:

Sunshine Patriot

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."