Obama didn't lose the election- he lost the support of everyday Americans who want out of Afghanistan

This is an excerpt from an email I wrote 6/24/08

" the best bet for Obama to lose [the general election] is this babble he has going about Afghanistan. What the hell is he doing saying all that? America wants out of the Middle East. Otherwise, to be honest, I'm not that worried, really; what worse can happen that can be blamed on the president. He'd have to make a bigger mess than War, Social Security, Rising Oil Prices, Food Shortages, Natural Disaster, Global Warming, Falling U.S Dollar and a half dozen other problems facing the United States combined, all of which are not in his power to fix. A lame duck at least would be better than what we've had for the past few years."

Unfortunately, Obama not only Babbled about Afghanistan. He plans to prolong the war and its tragic effects.

senseless

I remember being accused of 'hating America'
I remember explaining where Iraq was compared to the U.S

What remains in my mind now, was the naive warning I gave to those people who said I was unpatriotic for arguing the senselessness of war, "a successful war still requires death" we just choose to ignore it when it isn't Our people dying. Guess what. Our people are dying- and if you're a human being, more of your people are dying than you probably like to think. Innocent people and children in Iraq and Afghanistan die or are maimed daily. Imagine if all of a sudden China invaded to kill all the Klan members and Nazis in our country. What would you do? Even if you hate Illinois Nazis, you probably would be angry that the invader got involved and most likely killed civilians. This war is our mess in someone else's land. We don't know an exact number of casualties, in large part because it is too high a number to estimate and one which would be politically unfavorable to determine.