"So, Don we shouldn't have invaded Iraq. Saddam should be in there still."

Saddam should NOT 'be in there'...and we SHOULDN'T have invaded Iraq. There are other evil leaders in the world that need to be taken out also....but they aren't as easy, and we don't have the forces, .....and Kim Il Sung didn't thumb his nose at Daddy...

In response to Don's post about political parties....yes, under the current setup, it almost requires a serious voter to vote, as it were, for the lesser of two evils. There are WAY more than two viewpoints and agendas going, and it is beyond silly to expect all the politicians to cram themselves into two awkward groups....and it is 'almost' as silly to try to form a 3rd party when all that will do is confuse the situation.

A country as complex as the USA needs a system to allow the minorities to maybe GET that 1-2 representatives, instead of begging for favors from 2 parties which have to write 7 versions of every stump speech ...and remember where they are on Tuesday!

Add to this the need to shorten,by a lot the 2+ years of jockeying for position and a primary system which give a few states a ridiculous amount of influence over choices of candidates!

We DO live in an amazing, wonderful country in many respects, but efforts to improve it are not always self-serving power grabs or ". ...another post of blah, blah, blah, I hate America and Bush bashing. ".