Lieberman Warns Democrats: I May Join GOP

Go , Joe !!

War on terror and war in Iraq---two different things

Diferent, but not unrelated.

War on terror started after 9/11. War in Iraq is a continuation from our first altercation.

War on terror is every where. Iraq included

To a degree, but not in a way that justifies billions spent and 3,000 dead. I've never had a problem with the necessary projection of military force in a very dangerous world, but it has to be for very specific and necessary reasons and must have a direct effect on those reasons for going to war...

How about millions dead if we pull out of Iraq and allow the country to break down into chaos with sections that are terrorist friendly, and the terrorists housed and trained there attack us? Is that justified?

Yes there will be chaos etc. but us being there is not stopping it. If it was letting off maybe there would be some justification for staying the duration, but it seems that our only strategy is to stay and hope for the best. I am and always was against a war in Iraq...BUT we did have a chance to nail down the occupation as well as the invasion which we won hands down. There is no way to tell what level the violence will peak at if we leave. It might be bad, it might be the same...Your right to a degree it won't stop until someone is in control.
I can see having a regional presence maybe even a large one to keep Iran at bay but I don't see that us staying there will change the final equation all that mucch and call me selfish I am more concerned about the lives of our guys who WILL be killed if we stay there than other people who might be killed if we leave.