Tomorrow, The President is scheduled to make a major announcement regarding troops levels and strategy regarding Afghanistan in a speech at West Point. It is expected that there will be an announcement of an increase of 30,000 American troops with NATO picking up the rest for support.

While I feel it is important to debate the validity of this move by the current president, I think it is equally important to remember who opened up this pandora's box. I would love for us to get out of there right now, but as I have mentioned before that region is even more fragile than it was when we went there. Imagine my surprise this morning when I read the MSM reporting something that many of us on the left were called crazy for saying: BushCo. Let Bin Laden go. According to a Senate report: Not conclusive. Yes you read that correctly. Since that time, we have captured thousands of people and held them in prisons, both secret and not on the basis of heresay. I wish they were just as concerned with "conclusive evidence" before we went to Iraq for those WMD's. The irony would be delicious if it all were not so tragic. Forgetten over the years is another thorny little fact: The Taliban offered to turn Bin Laden over, and BushCo declined the offer. I recalled that during one of the debates in 2004, candidate Senator John Kerry mentioned Tora Bora, and the MSM media chose to ignore that fact. It was more important at the time for them to focus on something he said about Mary Cheney-- the story went down the rabbit hole.

The cold hard facts are that the previous administration knowingly let the face of 911™ walk away and left our country mired in an unwinnable war. I hope tomorrow night, our President announces alongside this troop increase, an exit strategy for this tragic disaster.

Have no fear tho, the warmongering right represented by John Kyl is hoping for no exit strategy at all. There goes the GOP, again, The party of "No" willing to watch people die for a war based truly, on lies. They lie and people die. While they scream about costs for Health Care Reform, the Stimulous, the deficit, they are more than willing to continue pouring billions of dollars into this war with no objective. It is no longer hypocrisy with the GOP, they are warmongers, pure and simple. There is no nuance to it anymore. They aren't hiding with a flag wrapped around them showing 'patriotism'. They simply want war. It started with the previous administration who lied just to shed the blood of our citizens and it continues with the minority party.

Let's hope the President does the right thing and tells us we are getting the hell out of there as soon as possible.

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Raine