when was the last time the usa has won a war?can`t remember,well you can`t count kosovo,that was a nato operation.so we go back all the way to ww2 before you say with certainty that we did win a war.we lost the war on korea,vietnam,the war on poverty,drugs,education,freedom,the economy,reforming government,etc. we have become a country that can`t do a damn thing we are as divided as we were during the civil war period,we can`t agree on anything,and when we do its so insignificant that it doesn`t matter.theres not much difference between parties,one party is bellicose but it doesn`t believe in globalization,the other party doesn`t know,they always seem to be trying to find itself,will never attack the opposition,or take a stand on anything.if we continue on the current course we will need to bring gibbons back to write the decline and fall of the usa. so now we are stuck in iraq fighting a 2 front war,afghanistan and iraq killing sunnis` which will someday come back to haunt us,do we even know our mission?besides that whatever happen to the mission of the usa,its people? we have been confronted by an inept adminstration,it has no clue,it ventured into a world that no one had experience or was equiped to handle,it got caught in this war egged on by neo-conservatives,it was selfish,distasteful,ignorant and hubris,whew. we use a national guard to go to war,the guard was intended for homeland security,thats where homeland security should begin,around the guard.we can`t do emergencies,we seem to be floundering,no life preserver,the rethugs just waiting till 08 to get the hell out of the current circumstances,the rats sit back and do nothing except purfunctory moves,hoping that the rethugs continue to dig the hole deeper and deeper.so after all this rant whats the solution? MAKE PEACE.there are worse things then peace,what they are i don`t know,having spent 3 years at the u of nam,67-69 i thought we would never see another war such as this,but no we have the same damn thing,crippled kids,kids left fatherless or motherless,parents left kidless,we have less because of the last 6 years,MAKE PEACE AND MOVE ON.well in closing bush saved lincoln from being the worst president,yes i know there will be much flak about that comment,but anyone who goes to war w/o trying to prevent it is a horrid person,so in the end lincolns statue in d.c. rightly collects pigeon crap,reckon if there will be statue of bush?no person should lose a presidency that captures the popular vote.