Where's our patience? We took out a genocidal Iraq dictator, his evil sons, and the Taliban govt in Afghanistan that treated women like dirt and harbored UBL.

You can try to spin it, but the fact of the matter is folks that polls show that a majority of Irag's citizens are glad that Saddam is gone.

We'll stay the course until the police and army of these countries can handle the terrorists themselves. That's one steadfast resolve of our President that we should admire.

MapleLeaf,
I am sure everyone is happy overthere. However, please note that Bush ran as President of the US, not Iraq. Our lives and money are being flushed down an increasing larger drain with no end in sight and in the case of Iraq for no reason. How you spin that makes me want two of whatever pill you are taking.

BTW, the Sunday NYT had a great article on how the Taliban are coming back and that US troops are staying much longer than earlier estimates.

Er, has any president ever used Memorial Day to acknowledge a war as a "tragic mistake"? I don't think that happened even after Vietnam.

I don't even know what Bush would consider a failure for the war in Iraq.

This now concludes your daily depression. Carry on with your day.

Where's our patience for a war that we were lied into and done on the cheap? Maybe someone should ask the Marines who went on an Iraqi civilian killing spree. Let's hear for Bush's 'steadfast resolve'!

the war was not a "tragic mistake." the colonial occupation of iraq and afgahnistan was planned. the mistake was the assumption that the us could be both an empire and be greeted as a liberator by its new colonial subjects (new leader: cia agent; new police: permanent military bases, etc). us rule was not greeted as liberation in the philippines, where the us had to kill hundreds of thousands of filipinos before it could bring them "democracy." and it's not happening in iraq. enough with the claims of innocense about mistakes, when this whole project has been dishonest from the beginning!

Meet the new boss..

Robert E. Rubin was sworn in as the 70th Secretary of the Treasury on January 10, 1995. He served until July 2, 1999.

From January 20, 1993, to January 10, 1995, Rubin served in the White House as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. In that capacity, he directed the activities of the National Economic Council.

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Prior to joining the Administration, Rubin spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York City.

"We took out a genocidal Iraq dictator, his evil sons, and the Taliban govt in Afghanistan that treated women like dirt and harbored UBL."

Yeah that's nice, but we haven't done shit change the people. the taliban is still there and their numbers rising, women are still treated like shit, and in Iraq people are killed by death squads for wearing shorts... that is if they aren't massacred buy some shit-head trigger happy marines first.

It's not like our country is good example to follow right now, with gov. corruption, spying, xenophobia, homophobia, racism et. al. Do you really think Iraqi's and Afgani's look to us and say, "hey that's a mighty good system they have over there"?