Why do we spend Billion fighting Aids when we are not inflicted with aids ourself? Why do we Favor abortion when we have never had an abortion?

People favor these things because it is the right thing to do.

Someone asked how much we are willing to spend?

My response to them is this. How much are we willing to spend on poverty. We have sinking billions and billions on Poverty for 70 years now. We have increased the deficit by 1 trillion dollars just by fighting Poverty. When is ENOUGH already? When do we say its a losing cause and just bring the troops home and stop fighting poverty?

AFter Virginia Tech what is the point of trying to combat Crime? Why continue as a nation spending 100′s of billions of dollars a year fighting Crime and losing police officers and citizens to the ravages of Crime? When is it ENOUGH? Why spend another dime?

When to we say enough is enough, give up and quit?

The answer is that we do NOT because it is a war that MUST be fought. It is a battle that must be engaged. It is a cost that must be endured. Aids? The same. Cancer? The Same. Genocide? The same.

Some battles just must be fought. The war on terrorism must be fought.

I doubt you want to give up the war on poverty, crime, aids, cancer? We have spent Trillions on those wars. I propose this war has an equal significance.

Then Nato stepped in and said “Are you done yet?”

They Said “Yeah.”

Voilla A statue of Bill Clinton in Sarajevo.

Hillary wants a statue of herself in Baghdad.

The RIGHT thinks they are making hay by attacking Senator Reid for stating the OBVIOUS.

lol, they thought pretty much the same thing last November. Stupid is as stupid does.

You want to make war right wingers? Then I say bring back the Draft, but start drafting the richest kids first, no college deferment unless your family makes under a hundred grand a year. Make sure the richest become combat infantry FIRST!

An air campaign like Kosovo is to [sic] late

The ethnic cleansing in Kosovo began after the bombing.

Barack Obama who says hell no get the hell out of Iraq and then we will think about what to do next. In my view this shows his total lack of understanding of foreign affairs and the implications that it has for the United States and its presence in an area that is the life blood of this Nation. No oil and we fold like a tent in a hurricane.

Or you have Hillarys position which I have just outlined with understands the geopolitical consequences of Iraq and is trying to figure out how to play to the antiwar to make them understand how Important Iraq really is.

You have two sides. Harry Reid just announced who he is supporting for the nomination. In the future when you hear Democrats saying one thing or another about Iraq you will be getting a sense of the division that is beginning to occur inside the Democratic party.

Now this division is not that big of a deal. It is one issue, but it is about terrorism, it is about who is better qualified to run the country and it is about the future of Americas interests in the Middle east. The EU is praying that the USA flees Iraq with her tail between her legs.

Obama wants that. Hillary does not. Who prevails will be who wins the nomination. Pure and simple.

Bush’s administration enjoyed similar success in Afghanistan and the displaced Afghanis were gladly flocking to the wonderful help that the United States was offering them in retaking their country from the radical Taliban. The USA was greeted as liberators in the Balkans and in Afghanistan. Why Not Iraq? Why not. That was the premise every Democrat had to face. Its happened twice with Muslim countries liberated by America so why not a third time?

This led not only neoconservatives, but also liberals like Clinton to be optimistic about what an American invasion of Iraq could accomplish. Despite the setbacks that have happened in Iraq Clinton remains wedded to a version of the same approach. The failure of the Bush Administration has been to not include people like Hillary and many more like her who really did and still do to some degree support what is trying to be accomplished in Iraq.

Now her plan and mine call for the redeployment of troops into a containment and force presence. The civil war is going to happen. However force containment’s purpose is simply to prevent the spilling of this civil war into neighboring Jordan, Syria, or Saudi Arabia. No one wants that. Secondly the force containments primary objective will be to prevent the outside influence of other nations from influencing the events transpiring in Iraq.

Unfortunately the Iraqis hate each other so much that 100,000,000 troops could not keep them from slitting each others throats in the middle of the night.

Purely a “damage controll” plan?

I did not, nor do not work for the Pentagon. I have no literal buddies at the pentagon. That was a figure of speech.

Hillary’s solution to Iraq rests partly on diplomatic efforts on the political front and on the regional and international front. This would include dialouge with both Syria and Iran. While Clinton does not favor having U.S troops intervene in an Iraqi civil war, she wants to retain a significant force in Iraq.

This force would try to “contain the extremists,” “help the Kurds manage their various problems in the north,” “provide logistical support, air support, training support” to the Iraqi government, and try “to prevent Iran from crossing the border and having too much influence inside of Iraq.”

Clinton’s idea of an occupying force goes well beyond that of the recent Senate resolution. The resolution provides for a “limited number” of troops after the pullout date, which would be devoted to training and to “targeted counter terrorism operations.” By contrast, Clinton’s force would have larger geopolitical responsibilities, including the restraint of Iranian power.

Clinton says she doesn’t know how many U.S. troops her plan would require. There is a former Pentagon comptroller who has developed a strikingly similar plan, estimates that 75,000 American troops would be needed to carry his plan out.

Amazing. I’ve been hawking this plan for about 8 months now. I guess my buddies at the Pentagon are finally starting to see things through my eyes. (Obligatory pat on the back) Thank you very much.

Now when I say whats the democrats plan? You will know. And you had to find out from a Neocon.