Thank god....I thought I was the only sane person on this board.

This may be a shock to some people, but when you sign up for the military....you know a war like this is possible. I assume your husband knew that before he joined. What are your husbands views on this? I know a ton of military people, both active and not active. They all support the troops and our Presidents decisions. I for one would not take a job as a cop in fear of getting shot by the criminal I am chasing....I for one would not take a job as a firefighter in fear of burning to death...I for one would not join the military in fear of getting sent to a countries that are in turmoil and hurting OUR country and possibly getting killed or dismembered. I don't want my son to go their either, but as long as he knows the risks...then if thats what he wants to do, then I will back him 1000%. People get killed, burned, dismembered, hit by planes flown by terrorists here......So what would you think if you sat in that hospital and looked at all the burn victims and they weren't there because of Iraq.....They were there because they were at work and a plane hit their building? Point blank....we need to be there, these people are a huge thret to us and also the innocent people over there need our help. If we backed out now, we will be in serious trouble...so YES LEAVE THE TROOPS THERE. DON"T SIGN UP FOR A JOB WITH LARGE POSSIBLITIES OF BEING KILLED OR HURT. I could see there being a huge issue if this was a draft. There are men out there who join the military just to go there and fight to keep their country safe. One of my coworkers, ran 4 miles every morning to get into shape just to go there, he is currently in Iraq and being a VERY proud American. Sorry I just get so pissed at the way people look at this war. So yes I would love to go visit them and thank them for their Courage and Service. Jess Still boy crazy....lol

Barack Obama won't have half the hard time with his color as he will with his name. The 'middle America' and Southern Bush voters will say, "didn't we catch and hang that guy?" I love what he has to say; he's intensely charasmatic and beautifully upfront about a lot of BS that politicians all to often get hung up on and waste a lot of potentially productive time on. I think it's gunna be Jim Edwards. From everything I know, I do like what he represents. On a (sadly) more important level, he is electable. He's a great speaker, good 'looking' (looks like a president), and most importantly is from the South. That was Kerry's biggest problem, he was a Yankee intellectual. Edwards can speak to Middle America and The South. As dreamy as it would be to have a black man or a woman president, I just don't see it happening in this election. I wouldn't die if Gulliani won, anything but what we've got now. At least he's a real Republican, instead of a religious whack job. I don't think it'll happen tho, I really think (assuming diebold hasn't figured it all out yet) this country is finally disgusted enough by what the Republicans have done; I hope so anyway. Politics are so exciting these days!

Are you for real. Since I have never met someone like you face to face, sometimes I really can't honestly believe you are real. You must really believe people who don't think and believe exactly what you do are the "evildoers." I honestly do not understand how you can think you are making sense. Your story about the little old lady and the mean grocery clerk is dumbfounding... I'm so pro-CHOICE it'd make your head spin and I would not have sat there behind that little old lady and let her apologize as you did. Who gives a s**t what you said to the bagger; it's the little old lady who was being victimized. All of that aside, the Republicans I know, and the policies they generally support, are some of the least compassionate I've ever seen. To imply that Democrats (or more accurately people who don't think exactly as you do) and people who believe in choice (over our religious beliefs and our bodies) hate little old people and embrace death for the weak is retarded. You are the picture of intolerance and hate. "Being pro-choice means the person feels "the right" to use death or to kill as an option to solve a problem or situation. Pro-life means there is NO option, other than life. You simply cannot be both." Just in this simple thread you completely contradict yourself. You say being Pro-life means there is NO option to use death to "solve a problem," and that the pro-choice "culture of death thinking" is where people started thinking they "have the right to end life if it is not sufficient or full of purpose," yet you defend the death penalty? You say that murdering a murderer is really pro-life. What happened to "there is NO option" to use death to "solve a problem." Murderers have souls, and were once babies who often weren't given the care they needed by their family and their SOCIETY. I can't imagine the words that could explain this to me and come out making any sense at all. Why don't you go support the children in need, before they are more victimized by our society to the point of becoming murderers, instead of lying to confused pregnant girls as a "volunteer" as you put it in your profile. Please solve this mystery for me and countless others. Regarding your following statements: "When humans begin to decide whether life is worth living or ending than they themselves become God. God is the giver, the sustainer and taker of life. " And, "Politians do not determine exactly when life begins or ends, it's God that does, no one else." How can you say this and at the same time support the death penalty and post a call to the world to play God for Terri Shaivo? I don't understand how you can so firmly believe YOUR religion should be mine. It doesn't belong in a society that believes in religious freedom and I am eternally confused with how it has even been allowed an audience. You and everyone else who thinks they are in a position high enough to judge everyone else are ridiculous. You and the hatred you represent, is one of the many (unlike the one topic method of party association) reasons why being a Republican would be one of my last choices for political association. What an embarrassment; the model for hipocracy.

No surrender ... I appreciate your posts... you are an extremely well informed intelligent woman *****ads, listens, watches ,understands , and makes her own observations .. I enjoy reading what you post and all your facts and commentaries There does not seem to be much here as of yet with truly informed people .. hope that changes soon... anyway ..glad you are here and .. it seems like you already have a very full life!!! Anyone who is as informed as you are is certainly not dull and has a full life!