[danjarch]

Sck5, the only way you can really believe what your wrighting is if you are blocking all of your own memories of what went on during the last part of 01 and since then. The liberal protesters were against going into afganistan in the first place. It's going to be another vietnam, was the growing refrain. We're going to get bogged down, Was another. Then when the Afganistans were pushing to far to fast, running into our bombs and we were having to slow they're advances so we could get some kind of American oversite in there, The Dems were crying that the amry was ruining the guys on our side and the administation was going to lose the war because of that.

But lets not forget the whole corus of pundents and Democrat leaders who after seeing that the general population supported the efforts and saw the Democrats as soft and weak when it came to defense, started playing up the supossed next president Hillary's tough stances and where trying to foster the impression that Bill Clinton had been really tough and relentless on Osama Bin Ladin. Three years went by, and every democrat who got five seconds in front of a camera would start proclaiming how much better they would run the war and how tough they would be on terrorists. Meanwhile back in DC they were rubber stamping the declaration of war and the patriot act.

Then the polls started to show John Q. Public's growing disenchantment with the situation in Iraq. Most had quit paying attension to Afganistan anyway. We started to hear a steady stream of condemnation about Iraq and a steady stream of armchair quarterbacking from the democrats. You must be block the fact that other then the occasional piece in the news, very little was said about Afganistan. Till about three months ago. Funny, three month ago the surge really started to show an effect. Now we're starting to here how Bush and the republicans are losing the war no one was paying attension to anyway, because the surge in Iraq choked off all the man power.

This is right along the same concept that drilling for oil won't bring the price of oil down. Things are most likly getting worse in Afganistan because the terrorists have been pushed out of Iraq and have decided to head for Afganistan instead. More then a few of these guys are multi country veterrans anyway. Boasnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Afgasnistan vs. Russia, Jordon, Lebanon, and on and on. They've showed up all over the world. I wasn't suprised when it was released that more then a few of the men in custody had been convicted of crimes in America. I would bet the same thing would show up when or if they were run through interpol.

It like the old myth of honor amongst thieves. Most thieves aren't honorable. They will steal and cheat whomever. Usually starting with the poorest simply because they're often the most gullible and easiest targets. Same goes for these radical groups, they'll break any law they feel like, use women and children as shields, hide they lust for power behind religion. Nothing new there. I haven't yet seen any considentcy from the democratic side of the aisle to even believe they have the slightest Idea of what they're talking about when it comes to National defense. When it comes down to it, the Dem party has been blowing which ever way poll better on this issue and looks to continue being a wind sock on this one. Even Obama is starting to create some wiggle room so if the surge continues to go well and it looks better in the polls, he can jump quick to take advantage of it.