Good Grief, Mr. President, just pull us out of Iraq and Afghanistan

[WI_DEM]

and then we would have billions/trillions of dollars to put to work on health care (with a public option) and putting people back to work with a HUGE jobs program--which we need. And on top of that our soldiers wouldn't be coming home in pine boxes.

End of rant.

[dugaresa]

1. supportive kick!

[OhioChick]

2. Hear, hear. n/t

[chelsea0011]

3. Ain't it the truth.

[YOY]

4. +1...with a Machevelli paraphrase...

"Wars start when you want but do not end when you will."

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. K&R!

:thumbsup:

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Ditto

[driver8]

7. A BIG K&R!!

What in the hell are we hoping to achieve by staying??

[graywarrior]

8. The entire country would breathe a sigh of relief

Well, almost the entire country save a few teabaggers and military types.

[Coyote_Bandit]

9. Part of the change I had hoped for

and one of the reasons I feel betrayed by the Obama administration.

[paulsby]

12. if you hoped for it, you weren't listening

he made it explicitly clear he was very pro-afghanistan war.

he gave NO indication he'd end it, and ample notice he would fight it hard

[jgraz]

10. K&R -- Just GTFO.

[katandmoon]

11. K&R

[truedelphi]

13. Several weeks ago,when Obama went out and met the troops that were coming home in boxes

I felt slightly off kilter for the rest of the day.

Then I realized, the mad, sad moment of Obama meeting the fallen troops was a fulfillment of a statement a friend, someone more cynical than me, had proclaimed way back in the second or third week of November 2008.

"It's great to be rid of Bush, but I'm scared Obama will only provide cosmetic changes."

So we still have the two wars, but now we get to have photos of the caskets, and a President who occassionally goes out and meets them.

I cannot for the life of me think of a situation that exemplifies the cosmetic changes more than that one.

[indepat]

14. Bring them home, please bring then home

:patriot:

[Cybergata]

15. I couldn't agree more! n/t

[Quantess]

16. I guess we shouldn't give up saying it, even though it feels like talking to a wall.

K & R

[bdamomma]

17. 8 years is enough of blood and waste of life.

and Karzai is a corrupt SOB.

[Orsino]

18. But is he strong enough to brave the cries of "cut and run"? n/t