archer wrote: That's pretty funny.....as if the day Obama became president he could make the wars just disappear. Bush left him with the legacy of 2 wars......there is no hypocrisy in protesting against the man who STARTED the wars, against the ill-advised invasion of Iraq, against going to war without a plan, against the deaths of thousands of American young men and women, but realizing, once he is commander in chief, the lives of those men and women are in his hands and he must end the wars responsibly and with dignity for the US. To try and make this into a political statement against him is to cheapen the enormous task our nation and those who defend it have taken on, and the lives lost and forever changed by this these wars. Frankly NC....I found the fact you even posted something like this offensive. It makes our military men and women into pawns to be used by politicians and that is just wrong.
The left never changed it's position on the wars themselves, and they helped elect the man who would look at those wars as needing to be ended responsibly, rather than a stepping stone to further wars in the middle east, perhaps in Iran.
Now, do you think you can fit all that on your "standard deflection" line?
Curiosity question.....do you think our country would be in the economic downturn it is now if we had never gone to war in Iraq and Afghanistan? I believe we could have gotten Bin Laden without war and it would have sent a far more powerful message to the world than 10 years of a war we can never fully win.
I think you should listen to the first part of what Obama is saying here. he may not have been for the Iraq war, but ihe isn't very shy about wanting to escalate the Afghanistan war. And if you are willing to listen, he is basically saying that at least one was the correct thing to do. And you already know there were plenty on the left who were more in-the-know than Obama saying we had to take Saddam down.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
