Evan Bayh: “Their overall consensus was that the trend in Iraq is negative.”

It is a practice I refer to as hostage taking for unrelated reasons.

And the more protracted this foreclosure problem, the more that delays recovery.

Well, and if they have to be focused on capital preservation, then obviously they are not lending, and that is yet another drag upon the recovery, isn't it?

There's something fundamentally wrong about that. If we can pursue our Nation's security without putting them or us as a country institutionalizing hypocrisy, I think America is stronger, we are a more just and secure country.