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Who cares if they were lying? Most politician lie most of the time. We expect this, and thus judge anything a politician is saying by that standard when they say it. Only fools and idealistic college students think otherwise. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

The real problem with troops dying, aside from the fact that troops are dying, is that most Americans don't have the cajones to handle the tougher side of life. In every military action troops die. In this case, though, don't blame the Bush Administration for continuing deaths; rather, blame the damnable insurgents because they are the ones doing the killing. They are also the ones continuing to cause their country to be occupied by foriegn troops. Were they to stop, the troops would go away faster.

Although I do sometimes think we should should leave everyone to enjoy the outcomes of the situations they create for themselves, in situations like Iraq it is more despicable to turn a blind eye than to put an end to regimes like Hussein's. Look at Africa for the last 20 years--everyone in the world, including America, should be ashamed for doing nothing.

Anyway...if they lied then they lied. So what? It's in the past, so forget about it and look to the future. Bush will be gone soon enough anyway, so it is best to consider for whom to vote in 2008 and work for policy change at that time, assuming policy change is what you want.