[dinok]

Its time for a new division to head to Iraq and releive the 3rd Infantry. Those boys did their job, and we are jerking them around. Rumsfeld is starting to tick me off. Its not like we don't have troops to send.

This is for some of you Coolaid drinkers who have never served a day in service or had families go through the personal cost of separation. As we speak, military families as well as the men standing guard in Iraq are taking the hits. Mariages are going to fall apart, kids will go thtough life with out their father, and we are taking the risk that one of those men will snap after seeing a budy die and kill a bunch of civilians right in front of CNN or BBC cameras. When ... not if...that happens, Rumsfeld, GW or the Washington Generals will not be blamed, or have to live with that nightmare. It will be that poor guy who was at the end of his rope and his family that was waiting for a hero to come home and now have to live with the shame of disgrace.

Bring the 3rd ID home and send another division over there.

[AntiGuv]

Rumsfeld is more concerned with being right than doing right....

[fatidic]

Dittos! The Iraqis don't want, appreciate or understand modernity or rule of law. Brute force, personality cults and religious wars are what they are about. Bring our troops home and only bomb WMD sites from now on. Leave nation building for the useful idiots on the left.

[Gunslingr3]

Its time for a new division to head to Iraq and releive the 3rd Infantry. Those boys did their job, and we are jerking them around. Rumsfeld is starting to tick me off. Its not like we don't have troops to send.

Which one do you want to send?

[huck von finn]

Not a good day in Iraq today, apparently. Shi'ites are gaining steam.

Shiite Muslims hurl stones as they react to U.S. Marines during a protest Sunday, July 20, 2003, in the Muslim holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). Thousands of followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim cleric marched on the U.S. headquarters in Najaf, demanding American forces leave the town and shouting derision at the newly formed Iraqi Governing Council. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

U.S. Marines of the 1st Brigade, 7th Regiment, block protesters Sunday, July 20, 2003, marching on the U.S. headquarters in the Muslim holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites). Thousands of followers of a hardline Shiite Muslim cleric marched on the U.S. headquarters, demanding American forces leave the town and shouting derision at the newly formed Iraqi Governing Council.(AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

[CanadianLibertarian]

Ok what the devil is going on there? This is now an all-out guerilla campaign against our troops, and there seems to be no effective response in the works. And when will the 3rd ID and other troops who have been there since last year be relieved? More troops, more agressive responses, more common sense please.

[verity]

Do you have a personal interest in the 3ID?

[ChuckHam]

I don't see the problem with them staying there at least a year in a combat zone. We did it in Viet Nam, and we can do it here. I spent 7 1/2 months over there during the first Gulf War and I didn't like it, but it had to be done and I understood that. Also, I understand these guys are being shot at, but it's the price all of us pay for signing on the dotted line. September or October sounds like a good rotation time to me.

On another note, f*^&kers (and their spouses) who bitch and moan to the press deserve to be kicked out of the service. I didn't like serving under Clintoon, but I didn't put it in the press.

[mathurine]

We are being too easy and humane with these buttbrains.
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