Originally Posted by
duckbillplatty
Senators are so idiotic. They are "surprised" that the number is so high? They want military engineers, advisors, police trainers, doctors, etc... to stay and help rebuild the country. They want to have security for those people. They want to have bases for these people to work out of. They want soldiers to man the base. They want soldiers to provide transportation. 50,000 just isn't a very big number to accomplpish all of this... It seems like that is a great number for a small, yet effective force to do exactly what they want done. I swear it's like listening to the teenage girls in my youth group when they don't have money to buy ice cream at the end of a mall trip. Why do we elect these people?