response...

http://blogs.laweekly.com/fish/better-dead-than-read/
"George Bush announcing the deployment of more than 2000 American troops to the afterlife in the hopes of preventing Fidel Castro from destroying Heaven with communism, a ridiculously high literacy rate and universal healthcare."

cuba’s literacy rate: 97% (2003 est); US literacy rate 99% (2003 est.) ever seen what universal healthcare looks like? in the UK, it takes 3-4 months to schedule serious surgery. and as if the stereotype isn’t funny enough, ever look at the teeth of anyone in universal healthcare? UK, Japan, etc. I think most people would agree that anything the government administers will be at a reduced efficiency, why should healthcare not suffer from this maxim as well?

as for baghdad, we’re committed, we’re stuck. anybody have a suggestion that won’t have some negative result? we leave, the place collapses; we stay, more soldiers die.

sometimes, you let the history go. rationale does not bear much relevance at this point. we're in, people are going to die, and which way forward will prevent the most death while protecting our interests. it sucks, but that's realpolitik and real life.