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We're not in the business of imposing some standard of equality on people's points of view. Turns out there are a lot of anti-war folks speaking out on this topic. So it goes. But I would add that the prediction of renewed violence from the Sadr faction hasn't come to pass. Bill Roggio, to whom I linked above, was right. The advocates of a precipitous withdrawal misjudge the events in Iraq, or ignore them, or choose to focus on whether the whole thing was a mistake from from the get-go. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

It's a mess, but we're cleaning it up. Agreeing with Roggio and other Surge proponents is none other than Angelina Jolie, who wrote a compelling piece last week in the Washington Post about the progress amid ongoing challenges in Iraq.

"My visit left me even more deeply convinced that we not only have a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious, long-term, national security interest in ending this crisis," Jolie writes.

"Today's humanitarian crisis in Iraq -- and the potential consequences for our national security -- are great. Can the United States afford to gamble that 4 million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart of Middle East, won't explode in violent desperation, sending the whole region into further disorder? What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the progress that has been made. In fact, we should step up our financial and material assistance."

This does TOO! The only thing is I only am hearing that being in Iraq is a waste. If it is www.redbluamerica.com, then it has to have the republican and democratic sides written, and an equal amount on both.

i think that the war should end!! Weve lost to many loved ones, and to much money!
BRING OUR "TROUPS HOME NOW"!!!!

I'm going to vote for John McCain, but he represents a class of Americans -- the imperial class -- that I don't know if we want running the country.

What's more, I'm kind of disturbed that we're bringing a Vietnam vet to the table who touts his experience. Doesn't that mean we recognize the Vietnam-Iraq analogy?

In any event, I'm not entirely sure we lost Vietnam. Today, they are one of our greatest trading partners and the government censors are losing control.

C'mon, Big K. You're not buying that distortion of McCain's comments, are you? McCain did not mean that we'd be fighting a war in Iraq for 100 years.

May we have a military presence in Iraq 100 years from now? Maybe so, if it is in our national interests. And I'd hope that by the time we hit our 6th decade of "occupation," it would be as troubling as our continual presence in Germany and Japan since the 1940s and our presence in South Korea since the 1950s.