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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (118076)	3/28/2009 1:39:22 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Knighty, alright - you pick (cherry pick or otherwise) the metric with which to gauge Obama's improvement to education and we'll track your measurement. all i see is a guy who talks a good game who continues to feed our financial and military/industrial complex just like bush did. gitmo is still open, defense spending is still massive and doesn't look to go down much - iven if obama gets his way and cuts spending on the backs of soldiers injured at war by cutting their VA benefits and trying to transfer them to insurance companies. he says one thing, "i'm protecting main street" and does the exact opposite, not unlike his distasteful predecessor. keep an eye on him - wolves are known to come in sheep's clothing. how do you like his $23 billion debt he'll bury america with at the end of 8 years, assuming he gets re-elected? slap on those 16% interest rates you see and we what do you envision as life in america? bush and obama seem to be the one-two punch that will bring american citizens down to their knees, groveling to the facist (corporate controlled) government. that's gonna end well, no? PS - i don't think healthcare reform is gonna be what you think it is. it may end up being little more than printing money to pay for more healthcare while the corporate pimps keep getting theirs as master of the government. i love it when people say obama will reduce healthcare costs and then he drops $600 billion in expenses as a mere "down payment." you don't need an extra $600 billion if you actually save more than that... it must be new math or something.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (118076)	3/31/2009 8:19:43 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, The surge was part of a total overhaul of the thinking and strategy for how to win. The success was not related to the increase in soldiers per se. That was a small part of it. Getting the Sunnis to turn was also part of the comprehensive strategy. It was not some random event that fell into our laps. There was an hour long Charlie Rose show on the new strategy that I provided here at the time it was implemented. It discussed the whole thing. It was an interview with one of the guys that was a key player in the "new playbook" for dealing with this kind of thing. It appears he was right about everything.