Well as someone who has seen Islamic fundamentalism up front and personal in the mountains of Afghanistan and in November will meet it again in Iraq..This is not an issue of oil, WMDs, dictatorships etc...Its western culture and islamic extremism meeting in the world...If the US withdraws this fight will follow us home, and I feel strongly as Europeans more and more want to defend their culture against an explosion of muslim immigrants that this violence will visit itself more and more in the European continent...George Bush is what he is love him or hate him...the important thing to me about the president is that I believe he is a man of principle that whether mistake or not he truly believes he is right...I believe that he will not tell you what he think you want to hear which I did feel about Carey and Gore...I don't want socialized medicine simply b/c I don't think its right to invest my tax dollars in a plan to provide healthcare for people that don't take care of themselves...Why should some fat ass, twinkie eating, alcoholic, two pack a day smoker pay the same amount for healthcare that I do? Obviously there has to be a minimum requirement...but an overall socialized medicine will drive doctors wages down and conversely cause our best and brightest not want to give up 10 yrs of their life to be a MD. One thing that would help make medical care more affordable is better tort reform so hospitals and Drs malpractice insurance isn't so expensive. I pray that Mccain get elected but at the moment its not looking good...anyway I'm rambling