[cowboyway]

I bet that put a damper on the train snipers.

I take it that, if American troops come under sniper fire in Iraq, that you advocate going into Iraqi neighborhoods, burning their homes and killing a few women and children.

Like I said, you've got issues...

[mstar]

And if I post a link to Sherman’s orders forbidding his troops from looting and pillaging will that shut you up about his campaign in Georgia and South Carolina and make you think he was a noble man?

Noble like accepting the surrender of Columbia, then giving his "word" as an assurance of the city's protection, then lying by pleading ignorance of his criminals in uniform plan to burn the city to the ground? What person in their right mind would believe such a man?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I take it that, if American troops come under sniper fire in Iraq, that you advocate going into Iraqi neighborhoods, burning their homes and killing a few women and children.

Sherman did not target women and children nor even rebel soldiers in his sniper order. He targeted secessionists, enemies of the peace of the nation who generally had no problem sending other Southerners to their death while they increased their wealth at home. To take the war to those people for a change was a just thing.