Submitted by Chasli, May 29, 2007 08:28

You mention that the Mexican war ended up favorably for the US with a huge territorial gain. Lincoln fully supported the troops in a contest that he originally opposed to at least some degree because he knew it was a war we could win. The point as I see it of Mrs. Clinton opposing the funding bill for Iraq is that she along with many others just don't see an end to the conflict. Even if President Bush's reasons for getting into the war were bogus, I'm sure Mrs. Clinton would be acting and voting in a more Lincolnesque manner if victory appeared attainable. But the president's vision of a stable, unified, and democratic Iraq seems to get farther and farther from reality. The question that Mrs. Clinton and the others who opposed the funding bill are asking is whether we really want to keep spending our national treasure, human and monetary, in a war that increasingly seems unwinnable.

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