1. You read that one right off the cards. There are still 50,000 troops in Iraq, and they took two hostile casualties in September, about the same monthly average that it's been all year. It's kind of funny to watch Obama strutting around going "combat mission over," and all the liberals who hooted at Bush's flight suit are drooling now like Pavlov's dogs.

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, I don't see his withdrawal schedule as a winning plan. Withdrawing from a war is not ending it, as we found out in Vietnam. In a military operation, throughout history, to set a timetable for quitting a war was considered lunacy. We are seeing this happen in Afghanistan. "Hold out for this long, Taliban, and you win by default. We're leaving the field."

This is a liberal Democratic idea, and a recent one at that. Democratic leaders of the last generation would have thought it was nuts, too.

To listen to you, you'd think it was Obama's idea to put Hellfires on a Predator drone. (Interestingly enough, this program was actually begun at the end of the Clinton administration, and before 9/11.)

Don't get me wrong: I'm glad Obama is taking out terrorists in Pakistan, and would be upset with him if he had scrapped the program.

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^But the right wing agenda of eliminating medicare, social security and public education is VERY unpopular to anyone paying attention, and further is a RADICAL agenda with huge social implications.^

This is not the "right wing agenda." What conservatives are trying to do is get people to see that the social programs you mention are sinking fast, and something has to be developed that works. You only have to read the annual report from the Trustees to see that we can't blindly go on the way we are.

The Democratic solution is to keep borrowing money, cripple the economy with higher taxes, go further into debt, and pay future recipients with drastically inflated dollars. Of course, this has the advantage of allowing politicians to kick the can down the road. Again.

Do we really need to discuss how well the public education system is working? I can put up the numbers. Again.