[therealfitz]

I definitley agree with alot that was said here, and some great points were made, but what urks me is when you have a full house of Democrats that want to cut funding to those toops that are risking their lives. Not to metion, they want to spend that money on the failing public education systems in the U.S, now i think thats rediculous. Yeh lets take money from those who are already living in sh!tty wartime conditions, because they are merely representing our country, and getting in a way criticised for it. For example when soldiers die, and there are those dickless bastards that go and protest at their funerals, that sh!t blows my mind.

That's bold, and not the issue in question either. We're here to discuss the deployment of more forces to the area. Evidently though, after reading some things here and on other forums, our education does need funding boosts.

Anyway...

I'm not even going to start with this, it's too frustrating to reason with some people on this board. Let's just pray when John McCain comes into office he will do what is in the troops and the iraqi people's best interest. I'm sure he will.

He's gettin a bit old. I also feel that he's not as sharp or independent as he used to be. He said some really out-of-character things back around the last election. There are some great democratic candidates in the running also. Barak Obama or John Edwards could do big things as well. Both are young, sharp, and have some balls...qualities that I also find/found in McCain.* 2008 should produce an interesting election.

*edit: Except for young heh...

You want to get into Bush vs Clinton? This isn't about Bill's blow jobs and W's lack of speaking ability. Bill was handed Bin laden on a silver platter by non other than Khadaffy (of Libya), and didn't take him. During Clinton's reign, the Seals and Deltas were never more fully staffed, we had all the intel we needed to go get bad guys, and Clinton never pulled the trigger.

Exactly, we aren't here to discuss this, especially when many hold that he was trained and funded through the 1980's by the USA to eliminate a presumably larger threat. A "lesser of two evils" situation. Sorry, I got off track...

there's too many checks and balances

You bet there are. Written out of too many checkbooks, withdrawn or deposited to alter the balances of politicians' accounts. I'd love an average Joe street guy for a president; somebody that was truly one of the people.

I always got a kick out of Clinton handling anything with the military though since he himself was a legitimate draft dodger.

I always got a kick out of W, who was also a draft-dodger. What's your point?

People do not control things, people change things. Things can control people, but things cannot change people.

Psuedo-Freudian blanket statement?

You need to watch the news more often. The other day on CNN's Situation Room they said that 4,000 troops would be going to Al Anbar province and about 16000 to Baghdad. They also specifically singled out Sadr City as a major battle ground.

So did the President's address...

Let's get this thread a bit back more on topic. I'm gonna go talk about cars. I've dealt with enough death the past month.