Whether they 'vote' us out or run us out the end result is the same-it was all for nought. If Al Qieda and the Taliban were clever they would have laid low for a couple of years until America had rebuilt their country and left. Then ease back in and take over the place without firing a shot, so to speak.

You will notice that under Hussane there was no terrorism in the area. Sadam ran Bin Laden out in the early 1990's because he didn't want the threat of a religious rival. That is when Bin Laden went to Afghanistan. We actually backed Sadam in the Iraq/Iran war. Remember the famous picture of Rumsfield shaking hands with Sadam in 1983. That's when we were supplying him with arms and refueling bases in Saudi so that his jets could come down to Hormus and Larac islands and bomb the ships that I was pumping out.

Granted Sadam was no Mr. Nice Guy and you certainly wouldn't want your sister to marry him, but he ran a stable country that supplied the US with oil and employed US oil companies to drill. He made billions for this country and that is what Reagan and Bush sr. wanted, and it worked. No one gave a rat's ass that Sadam was killing his own people or that a million people died in the Iraq/Iran war. They were only a bunch of little brown rag heads living in the 14 th. century who were running around in the desert and who had not figured out how to use a fork and toilet paper.

Then here came the US who was going to show democracy to a bunch of people who, one, didn't want it, and two, didn't have a clue about how to make it work. They had a form of capitalism that worked and a dictatorship, what more could they ask for? Okay, maybe cheap Leivs, but nothing more complicated than that.

We are going to spend probably upwards of $3 trillion before we are out of there and more hundreds of billions repairing our military and the military personnel. And when we leave we will leave the same impression as if you stuck you hand in a bucket of water and pulled it out. Remember Somalia and Viet Nam? Read about the British rout from Afghanistan in the 1800s. These people beat Britain, they beat Russia, and they will for sure beat the US.