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We had hoped to open this blog with good news, saying that we promise to highlight what's going well for rural America, as well as to emphasize Washington policy making ... and how these action's affect rural America's "bread & butter", i.e., economic well-being.
Instead, today's news highlights how sad it is that, quite simply, the President has failed to hear the voice of the American people, as they spoke so strongly only eight months ago in the 2006 elections.
Americans understood then ... the endless Iraq war has made things worse instead of better, and we are now in a position that our soldiers are dying to honor those who died before them. A new National Intelligence Estimate re-emphasizes that Al Qaeda is growing stronger while we remain focused on Iraq. The Report says we are in a "heightened threat environment." Overall, the assessment underlines the need to force the President to change the mission, so that our nation's resources can be redirected toward Al Qaeda, rather than be caught in Iraq's civil war.
Congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, puts it this way, "We must responsibly redeploy our troops out of Iraq, handing responsibility for security over to the Iraqis and leaving only those forces required for limited missions. This will allow us to concentrate our efforts on Afghanistan and the al-Qaida terrorists who attacked us on 9/11."
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