houston chronicle moved the comic out of the funny pages saying we believe the topic is more appropriate for the editorial page. one newspaper decided not to run the doonesbury comic at all because they thought readers could confuse the texas legislation with that pending in georgia. given that the georgia general assembly is considering an abortion bill, house bill 954, i made a decision not to publish the strip intended for publication this week. i thought this was a real possibility that readers might confuse the topic of this week s doones bury with georgia s proposed legislation. didn t want to hurt the chances for the legislation. if all the newspapers in all the states were super extreme
deciding. see a lot of women getting abortions don t have any idea they are pregnant. that is why rick perry could not wait to sign the mandatory vaginal probe ultrasound in law in texas, to tell women the concept of choice can be a fallacy. unless you re making the choice like he personally agrees with. today the press secretary denounced this week s doonesbury strip. it isn t funny, there is nothing comic about the taste less interpretation of legislation we have passed in texas to insure women have all the facts when making a life-ending decision. who knows, we have been thinking bob mcdonnell would be the governor ultrasound, governor vaginal probe, vice president pick. but he does not want to be known as governor vaginal probe. i think it s he possible that maybe rick perry wants to be known as governor vaginal probe i m not sure he would see that as a bad thing. before you know it, we will look
than 10 yirs is it time years, to say enough? we have tragically lost lives, considerable number of young americans on a mission we will discover is not doable. any time you have such a shocking development, it s important to take a look and see what the situation is and whether it s possible to continue on. given all these additional problems, we have to either make the decision to make a full commitment, which this president has not done or we have to decide to get out and probably get out sooner. given the president s decision to get out in 2014. the other candidates are being fairly straightforward about saying time to get out should know rick santorum suggesting he wants to get out of afghanistan and saying that when president obama tripled the number of troops there, that showed insufficient commitment
to we fought, bravely and with all good intent, for more than 10 years is it time to just say enough? i think it s very likely we have lost tragically lost the lives and suffered injuries to a considerable number of young americans on a mission that we will discover is not doable. any time you have such a shocking development, i think it s important to take a look and see what the situation is, whether it s possible to continue on. given all these additional problems, we have to either make the decision to make a full commitment, which this president has not done, or we have to decide to get out and probably get out sooner, given the president s decision to get out in 2014. the other candidates there being straightforward about saying it s time to get out of afghanistan, rick santorum simultaneously suggests he wants to get out of afghanistan and
dealing with the dangers of ied s, confronting enemy fighters. one in five nato fatalities in afghanistan this year, one in five are at the hands of what is supposed to be our own side. the afghan forces that we are arming and training is the justification for our continued presence in the country. nobody is under the illusion there were not horrible costs to this war. as there are to any war. but this news this weekend coming on top of the accumulated horrors of recent months in afghanistan makes it crystal clear how horrible the human cost of being in afghanistan for this long continues to be. and therefore, how solid, worthwhile the justify indication has to be. when you talk to policy makers of issues of war and peace they never admit there is anything other than pure military calculation behind their decision but in the real world we all understand politics play