If liberals were willing to accept the Senate bill as it stands, we would be better off with no "reform" at all. There is nothing "meaningful" about it - it's a huge giveaway to insurance companies.

When will folks get it through their heads that these corporations are the problem and must be taken out of health care altogether?

As regards the war in Iraq, Obama has been painfully slow in winding it down, but it is happening. His surge in Afghanistan, however, is a huge disappointment to (insert your term of choice here) progressives/liberals/peaceniks like myself who believe that war is inherently evil, cannot do anything to repair the damage done to the US reputation in the world, and is impossible to win.