twenty five days till christmas.prayer in school.democrat- oppose/violation of the seperation between church and state.republicans- favor/it is a religious right and our christian heritagewar in iraq/afghanistandemocrats- favored at first but critized president bush for messing things up.-wanted a defined exit strategy during the bush years-president obama withdrew all combat troops from iraq in august 09-all us forces will be out by end of 2011-obama wants to focus on afghanistan- sent 30000 more troops 12-09-started us withdrawl from afgan in july 2011-hopes to be out by late new year 2012republicans-would not leave until the job is done. wouldnt leave till there goverment was strong enough-admitted to mistakes-hoped iraq new gov and people wouild eventually be stable enough for the us withdrawl-pulled 8000 troops out as soon as he was leaving office-afgan was not as focused on as iraq-allowed taliban and al-Qaude to gain power
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