Reply #12: Nothing controversial, but a little too general

[JPZenger]

Obama's statement has nothing to do with King George.

If any Dem had been President on 9-11, he would have sent troops into Afghanistan. The difference is he would not have wasted our good will, military morale and personnel and money in Iraq.

We do need to prepare against international terrorism, and to chase the bad guys. If we had not spent so many hundreds of billions in Iraq, we would have had the money to search more containers and install radioactive monitoring equipment in all ports. If we had not wasted our energy in Iraq, we could have continued to benefit from useful intelligence on terrorists from countries (such as Syria) that have not always been friends with the US.

When I read the heading of this post, I thought it was showing the similarities between General Petraius's statement with George Bush's speeches - which was highlighted on the Daily Show.