Besides, putting troops on the ground brings back memories of what liberal columnist Robert Scheer of the San Francisco Chronicle recently called America's "most disastrous overseas adventure": the Vietnam War.
The ship's captain and crew knew they were no match for the German battleship Admiral Scheer but drew its fire to save 38 ships in the convoy and the lives of hundreds of merchant seamen.
Mr. DEREK SCHEER (Clean Wisconsin): Because it's such a large portion of the world's freshwater and it is a thirsty world, there is more and more concern that folks will be coming after the Great Lakes as a source of drinking water outside of the Great Lakes basin.
The President went to Minnesota where there's a race for Senate and for Governor this year, but political scientist Stephen Scheer(ph) of Carlton College says the breaking news about the rising cost of the Iraq War distracts from what the President traveled to the state to talk about.