Several years ago, those words to a popular song, meant something to those of us who lived through the VietNam War. For all the lost lives, ruined countryside, broken promises,
and men, left forever altered for their experiences there..in the end, the North Vietnamese took the country over.

For all the British and German lives lost in the American Revolution, the Americans still won.

The point is, it is very hard to outlast the indigenous population when they don't want occupying forces there. They have the time. Eventually, Rome had to leave Great Britain, and Hadrian's Wall was all that was really there left to mark their passing.

We are now being told that the Iraq War is "winnable"...long after it was supposed to be over. Instead of throngs throwing down roses before our troops, women are throwing down children in front of Humvees, hoping to stop them for an ambush.

We are spending 5.8 BILLION, almost 6 BILLION there A MONTH....and for what? Does anyone seriously think that we are going to have a "democratic government"? Heck, our OWN government is not a democracy....ours is a "constitutional republic".

So, what is our exit strategy? Are we just hanging around until Bushy decides he wants to take his toys and go home? And, in the meantime, how many boys must be killed, how many must be paralyzed, how many must lose arms and legs?

Is this what a conservative "mandate" brings? Those of us in opposition, countered the chants of "Four More Years"... with
"Four More Wars"....how prophetic we turned out to be after all!

~Code