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@TrueXtremeIconYour prospects of getting a first home are better than ever. With all the foreclosures there hasn't been a better time since the early 90's for a first-time home buyer to get into a decent property. This is like Christmas for young people. And the "rooting for the home team" is about taking Iraq, not some political dilemma. From the early 70's until the first Iraq war we'd been too preoccupied with the Soviets to worry much about the middle east and we got our asses handed to us over and over again. Read up a little on how many of our embassies were attacked over the last 40 years. When the Beirut bombing happened the only answer Reagan had was to pull out of Lebanon. In that vacuum of power the Syrians essentially took control of Lebanon and didn't get the f**k out until they noticed we were their new neighbors a few years back when we took Iraq. One of the reasons al Queda gave for 9/11 was that we had a military presence too close to Mecca, so we had to clear out of Saudi Arabia, too. We didn't take Iraq because of any WMDs or connections to 9/11. We took it because we've needed a stable base of operations in the region for decades and we knew nobody would get all that bent out of shape over Saddam's fall. Now we're entrenched. We've got over a dozen permanent bases and an embassy the size of Vatican City right in the middle of Baghdad. And the best thing we could do right now is expand our little colony to include Syria and Iran. That's why I'm voting for McCain. He's not as right-wing as Bush, but he's volatile and maybe his temperament will make up for his ideology and we'll get rolling on our next conquests. Obama is only going to stall our progress and help erase the tactical gains we've made since Bush took office.

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