Reply #2: Life is worth respect at the very least.

[Blue State Bandit]

Iraq is just the first strech of a hard road ahead for the Democratic party, and the people of America. I know of few people calling for a full, unilatteral withdraw from Iraq. But we would be fools not to take a step back and catch our breath. If we redeploy to the desert, and our bases in the Gulf, we may still be in a containable situation. We may even be able to dial back diplomaticly. But if we "stay the course, we WILL run aground, and that's what our enemies are laying in wait for. Iran, Syria, possiably China, you know that that's what their waiting for. It's the only logical strategic move for them.

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government".

My favorite line from the Declaration of Independence.