and building a Burger King and Pizza Hut on a huge, growing base proves it will not be a short term surge.

The economic focus and domestic health care agenda ensures this all goes unnoticed too even though IT IS COSTING AMERICANS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND BLOOD.

This is not a war of self-defense, but continued regime-change for a new middle east, entirely consistent with the neoconservative agenda of the Bush administration. THIS IS OBAMA'S IRAQ AND VIET NAM.

Washington Post story that just broke:

...military experts are warning that the United States is taking on security and political commitments that will last at least a decade and a cost that will probably eclipse that of the Iraq war.

...but America is on vacation in August now. Where are the anti-war protesters now, with Obama's surge? Afghanistan was somehow given a pass an only Iraq made the issue. These facts should begin to swing public opinion again, hopefully.