I don't think any party hoped for a loss! That's like saying you expect all our soldiers to die over there. I've had family there, etc! I had hoped, at the very least, it would be over quick, but saw Viet Nam written all over it! I look at it in terms of loss of life and that is frankly why I started watching George Steph. show, to get a handle of the loss. He posts it and the names of soldiers in the show (I know some others do it also). If they posted how much money on a weekly, monthly basis, it would be more of a focus. You'd think the loss of life in Katrina, due to the diverting of funds from levies to war would have shed a lot more light on it, as that is a cost that would not have been, had the levies been fixed as they were scheduled!

B.O. doesn't get it, if he is focused on economy only-even if that is what American's are focused on. Housing and Transportation! I don't think war is not a money issue to the public anymore, after a few billion, what's a few more. We are pissed over oil! It is there and we aren't getting a break! At least some are! Once we get use to seeing the money floating out the window, you get apathetic about it!

Looking at George Steph. I just noticed that someone I went to High School with lost a relative in Iraq this week! The other thing I notice, the loss's are getting older in age, meaning our armed services are really stretched thin and fewer recruits. If McCain gets in, I expect a draft! Look-out Canada, here we come again!

I do feel Obama is not looking at a big enough picture, due to his youth and inexperience-not sure! I know younger people with a better understanding of the situation; in Iraq and our economy!

Somehow, the world will sit on it Axs's and keep on spinning!

Frankly, I want out of war due to the loss of life and I see it as a civil war over religion over there! That is my opinion. However, we stirred up the pot, just as in Viet Nam and how much harm did it do there to turn and run?

Like the article states, the Republicans run Congress and had a lot to do with how we got there. Not just one congressman or Senator's vote!

Miss. Steve was not posted yet when I put my post in and now that I read it, I see: At least someone is looking at Katrina and the relationship it has with Iraq! I live in CA, and what happened there is equally as bad as 911 and worse in that it would not have happened if we never went to Iraq. The loss and con't loss there is a toll of Iraq!