Sense of Urgency

Somebody should help me understand this. President Obama is adamant that we pass a health insurance realignment plan immediately, because people are dying today,even though he specifies that no component of the plan can be implemented before he cements his next term in office. We had to pass bill after bill fascizing industries and re-directing income from producers to folks that pay no income tax, and from industries that are solvent to campaign donors that aren't, and most of that money won't hit the shovels until 2011/12. Yet, we need weeks or months to respond to a general, in the field, who says he needs more resources to accomplish his mission with sufficient force to protect his soldiers. This would be a request from the same folks that executed a strategy that turned the war in Iraq into a place that's safer than Chicago. This request would be for the same war in Afghanistan that candidate Obama said was the real war we needed to focus on. Help me with the priorities on that please.