I'll second that! I am so confused and unhappy with all choices, that I would almost be willing to abstain from voting this time around in order to let fate take it's course *cough*Hillary '08*cough*. But, as a responsible citizen I will not abstain.

Being in Iraq currently gives me at least a small idea of how things are going over here, and it is interesting to be on the 'other side' of things. Back home I read about Iraq and discussed politics. Here I read about politics and live 'Iraq'. I believe in success here, and what our current mission is. WMD can kiss off, our current mission is so far gone from that, and I'm happy that it is. We are fighting insurgents, mentoring a democracy, and killing al-Qaeda (even though they are only here because we are...blah, blah, blah*CNN*) I can tell you that things are much different that what you read/see in/on the news..."the truth is out there" it just can't be found in the media.

All that leads me to want a strong conservative president for our next executive; however, I don't really want a 'very' strong conservative to increase troop levels and keep us here for 5 - 10 more years over the 100,000 mark.

We can have our cake and eat it too as it were. Drawdown in Iraq, mission success, fighting the GWOT, increase our international image (positively), and fix many of the domestic issues that have been on the back-burner for that last 6 years. The problem is that I don't think any of the candidates from either side of the isle is a baker.