The "Surge" didn't work what work was we paid the Iraqi's to spot fighting amongst themselves & that's the only way "we can keep any semblance of peace"! We will be able to pull out our combat troops but we will be there "keeping the peace" a lot longer than we've been at war. We will continue to piss money into Iraq like "Niagara Fails". We will probably spend as much on health care for vets over their lifetime as we have spent on the war. We will pay for "Bush's Blunder" for generations & still we will only be paying off the interest & at a high % rate to boot. We will have lost any respect in the region for who knows how long & the blood we let there will fertilize a crop that will that will forever be bitter to our tastes. This was not just a mistake, it was a failure in human development, a disaster in humanity. Not only was it a failure to communicate, it was akin to spitting in the eye of God. We were landscape engineers designers planning a graveyard in order to raise a new crop of terrorists. "This was a good thing"? You must be mad!

And now we will commit to the same mistakes in Afganistain.

Barry