Republicans are ignorant! Something should click in their minds, if our troops are over extended, wounded, mental ill, battle fatigue, and/or dead, so why would you put more troops in Afghan. Our troops have been weakened from Iraq and, now, Afghanistan and this leads to U.S. becoming vunerable to terrorist attacks. America don't have any protection from any of her enemies inside or outside the country. gwb failed to manage the Afghan war from the beginning and there is nothing we can do now that would be successful but continue to drain U.S. resources and kill our children. It is time to leave Afghanistan. Let the contractors fight the war in Afghanistan. They are being paid much more than our children in the millitary.