I heard on NPR that President Obama is going to start pulling troops out of Iraq, but stay in Afghanistan. It's because Obama is looking toward re-election in 2012 that he's trying to fulfill a campaing promise he made when running against McCain--that he'd get our troops out of Iraq. But NPR says Obama won't say "mission accomplished."


That makes sense, because no mission was accomplished except to send men to Iraq and get them butchered for nothing--absolutely nothing. Iraq is going to be left in worse shape than we found it, animosity toward Americans amplified, billions of dollars thown away at an absolutely stupid futile war. Stupid stupid stupid. The village idiots have gone to Washington and are in charge of this country, and Obama is not strong and forceful enough to stand up and stop it. He's a nice guy, that's the problem. You can't be conciliatory with the village idiots.

I was talking to an guy who had served in Iraq, and he says if we withdraw from there, it's be like saying to those who have died there that they died for nothing. So should we keep sending soldiers there to keep getting slaughtered so those have already died won't feel bad? Idiocy! Get the hell out of there and spend the money here in our country on our own people--domestic programs are failing, infrastructure crumbling, and the Taliban is going to break the back of this great country by draining resources till we're dry.

Obama, I voted for you, but you're too placating, not the ballbreaker this country needs right now.

susil