Well there you go. I personally put one U.S. troop's life above the whole stinkin' country of Iraq.
Would you rather have 4,000 dead Americans now in the pursuit of a safer america, or 100,000 dead americans in the pursuit of election?
The American soldier has already sacrificed much for not only the american people, but the iraqi and the afghanistani people. We are creating a stable middle east that reduces the threat they pose to us and the rest of the world.
We have 2 options: We can run away, stay in our little bubble, and ask the terrorists nicely not to murder us, or we honor the sacrifice of the soldiers and hunt down the bastards who not only attacked us in 2001, but in 2000, 98, 96, 93, and are now trying to kill more americans in iraq.