I'm sorry, you have zero respect for the troops when you send them to die simply because you're too embarrassed to admit that you screwed up. George Bush botched this war from day one. Even John McCain, who now is Bush's biggest defender of how "great" the war is supposedly going, admits that we should have sent far more troops initially - but we didn't. It has been a downward spiral in Iraq from the day we captured Baghdad. We should have kept our eye on the ball, our eye on catching Osama - but we didn't. Imagine had we sent 150,000 American troops to Afghanistan instead of Iraq. Would Osama could have gotten away if we'd sent our service members to Afghanistan instead of Iraq?



This war is lost. It's been a disaster for years, and the Republicans, led by George Bush, are afraid to admit that they've made a mistake. This war is lost. And anyone who sends even one US soldier into harm's way simply because he doesn't have the courage to admit he's made a terrible mistake - that person is a coward. That person is not someone who gives a dammn about our troops.



You don't send our troops to risk their lives for a lie. You don't send our troops to their deaths for a war that is already lost. Sometimes, when you're commander in chief is an idiot, you lose. This is one of those times.