Our idiots of both parties did that crap.
Thats what I just said.
tell me again how giving up the missile shield for the Russians so that maybe they would ask the Iranians to play nicer with us is conservative?
The Iranians are of no threat to us, just as the Iraqis were of no threat to us.
Generally on WoT issues, I think Obama has just been forced by reality to abandon many unrealistic positions that the Left took in it's hatred and opposition to Everything Bush. That doesn't necessarily make him a natural conservative - it makes him not an idiot.
BS, he made it clear he would pursue Afghanistan and Pakistan when he was campaigning.
:roll: which you oppose because you're a liberal, right?
Exactly, Its only a bandaid until we can get a single payer plan like the rest of the industrialized world.
that doesn't get you to 50%.
Well, let's try it, and see how much it saves before we start cutting benefits for our soldiers, umkay?
I think I'll be the judge of how I'm serving my fellow Marines; that being said - realistically our mission is not going to be reduced, just the funds with which we are expected to accomplish it. It's going to come down to paying less on our people, or paying less on our gear.
Or, less on wasteful and unnecessary wars and bases.
you're late to the party - our war with Iraq was over in late spring/early summer 2003.
Wrong, we still have 46,000 combat troops there. My son spent last Christmas there.
yet only
39% support the President's plan to start withdrawing us from Afghanistan, and only 25% approve of him as President.
I notice your poll shows 71% approve of plans to pull all troops out of Iraq by December - interesting.
Here is another interesting poll -
"One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting,
and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday.
The nonpartisan organization that studies attitudes and trends, called the study the first of its kind. The results were based on two surveys conducted between late July and mid-September. One polled 1,853 veterans, including 712 who had served in the military after 9/11 but are no longer on active duty. Of the 712 post-9/11 veterans, 336 served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The other polled 2,003 adults who had not served in the military.
New poll shows a third of post 9/11 vets feel wars are a waste - NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |