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To: one_less who wrote (214986)	1/26/2007 11:18:52 AM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not bad, rough.....I like it....lol!!

To: one_less who wrote (214986)	1/26/2007 2:40:35 PM
From: Garden Rose	Respond to of 281500

Rough, you are exactly right, it's a debate of who can say whatever, but the basic bottom line is not defined as to their positions of why we went into Iraq and why we are staying. Should be interesting if any of the proclaimed "intellectuals" respond.

To: one_less who wrote (214986)	1/26/2007 3:02:20 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The US military have a job to do -- to defend the United States of America. The US military was deeply engaged in defending the United States of America in Afghanistan. The elite units were pulled off that mission when it was half done. They were pulled off that mission to do something completely unrelated to defending America. The US military in general, and the elite units in particular, developed a loathing for the ideological draft dodging scum that put the US in harms way for nothing and did it at the worst possible time from the point of view of the defense of our nation. You can shuck and jive all you want. You can salute the deposing of one the most vile creatures on earth -- Saddam. But you can never get around the problem that the US military faced when it was told to shift from Afghanistan where there was a real an urgent war to be fought to Iraq where we could have waited till the time was right and the world was by our side -- it cost us the war on terror, a war that was within our reach to make major strides towards winning if not yet completely winnable. Now the goal of eradicating terrorism has slipped away from us and we will spend endless decades at war -- wars that we could have averted but for the ideological stupidity of a handful of bureaucrats who just had to have their own way, no matter how much harm was done to the US, the middle east or anybody else.