Surge versus pullout

To think we have fallen from the principle of 'liberating' Iraq to letting an outright civil war to flair as our least worst option. The horrors that the Iraqi people have gone through are beyond my comprehension, to let it get worse is an option I cannot support. The only thing we can do is start taking this war seriously. Double the number of troops in Iraq.

This president has failed in uniting the country behind him. The onion posted this as a joke, but I remember the lines of 'yuppie' Americans at blood donation centers after 9/11 in New York City. I remember the horror everyone felt when people realized there was no blood needed, that there was nothing we could do to help. There was and still is a powerful desire to do good in the American people, we need a leader that can channel that desire. Yes it was a mistake in attacking Iraq. It was our mistake as a people, and we should be suffering at the front, not the Iraqis or the select few that will love their country enough to serve in the military regardless of the idiocy of it's civilian leadership.