In Iraq we are have around a 1:8 kill ratio!

Body counts in Iraq are not even on par with Vietnam, where 200 dead Americans a mouth was a slow month.

We have learned from Vietnam.

Those Marines on that Helo could have crashed in Texas and died and not one of you asses would have even thought twice about them. You don't honor our military’s sacrifices in preserving your rights, you use their deaths to make a political statement. The Left laments the deaths of Americans they despise? Yeah Right! You disgust me and all true American Patriots.

I wonder what your position, and others who regular comment on this blog, would be regarding Iraq if Clinton was President.

Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ...there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

It would take 2 days to try an explain why almost everything BB said is wrong. Its been said on this blog over and over so he wont listen anyway so forget it.

Sure you can... you just have to have the will power to do it.... and do it right!

That means without listening to all the crying liberal lefties complaining about how badly we are treating these poor guys that just blew up a couple of GI's.

Most of those fighting in Iraq are not Iraqi's but rag tag groups of zealot idiots with one purpose in mind, kill Americans. Freedom is evil and so are we.

I assume by your post that you agree with that? Most of the lefties on here take great joy in news of this country’s failures... I find that truly amazing.

Today, during a press conference he spoke about the upcoming elections in Iraq. “Clearly there are some who are intimidated,” he said, “I urge alls (not a typo) people to vote.” Let me describe the scene on the ground here in “liberated” Iraq. With the “elections” just three days away, people are terrified. Families are fleeing Baghdad much as they did prior to the invasion of the country. Seeking refuge from what everyone fears to be a massive onslaught of violence in the capital city, huge lines of cars are stacked up at checkpoints on the outer edges of the city. Policemen and Iraqi soldiers are trying to convince people to stay in the city and vote. Nobody is listening to them.

"There has never been a war that went according to plan. As I noted above, the end game is simply to win." I assume that you must be referring to the "War on Terror" since I thought America won the Iraq War (v2.0) a while back. So, given that we're talking about the War on Terror, and that the end game is merely to win, the question becomes: What is "winning", in this context? Can you please describe to me what victory will look like? This is not an attack on you, it's not a trick question, but a genuine enquiry that no-one ever seems to answer. Because without a clear vision of what winning the war looks like it seems to me that we've been sold a war that will never end. Surely you can't seriously support such a thing?