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Supporting the troops also means holding the civilian authorities accountable for providing these underpaid brave men and women a plan that is doable.

We can't control Iraq unless as Colin Powell suggested to GWB and Rumsfeld four years ago...that's a job for 500K troops not 135K.

We also cannot mitigate 6000 year old tribal conflicts nor should we try. Let them have at each other and when they stare down the barrel of unmitigated civil war perhaps they will act in their own mutual self interest.

We should redeploy our troops to the countries perimeter (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait etc), secure their borders by leveraging our air power to support he troops. We will keep additional outsiders out and kill a few Al Qaida and trouble makng Iranians as they try to get it.

This will save American lives and give the Iraqi's the opportunity to decide for themselves what their country will become, and as an added BONUS the border deployed troops will give the Iranians something to get nervous about.

That's a doable plan with no timeline for withdraw Our signal to leave will be when the Iraqi generated carnage turns to a stable civilian recognizeable governance. If that never happens we'll never leave and we can easily blow away anyone who comes near our entrenched positions along the borders. Take a little Petro in payment for our services. They hate us anyway, might as well get paid for our effort.

We should also reinforce the Afghan effort and oh by the way, get about the business of hunting down Bin Laden. You know the guy who said "hey I did it and I'll do it again". This administration is just too smart for it's own good, or for ours. We need GWB's form of protection about as much as we need Tony Sopranos' protection.

Mr President, secure our borders and the Iraqi borders and maybe your poll rating will climb above 30%. Get out of the border patrols way, quit locking up agents for shooting drug runners in the a##. Then give our soldiers a plan that puts them in a position to be the heroes they are. While you're at it quit turning a blind eye to the wartime Oil profiteering and let the Justice dept and FTC do their jobs...restoring true market forces to the fuel market.