Reply #70: Thanks for this.

[mattclearing]

I am of the impression that you are right, and we have to play the cards we are dealt with the President we have been swindled by. Like I said, we could do better, would be doing better with Kerry in the White House, or anyone else for that matter.

The strategy of cut and run only holds up because Bush is in power though. That's my main problem with it. Any other president would re-frame our troops as "peace-keepers," stop using Iraq as an excuse to bleed the treasury dry and actually fix the place up and invest in the infrastructure. I believe these efforts would make a difference to the Iraqi people.

But yeah, we don't have anyone who can do that. It may be fantasy, but it COULD be done. Just not by these people.