I'm really concerned about what these idiots are doing for the long-term, not just in Iraq.
If you think about this, 1,000 lives is all it takes to get the anti-war people to start calling the current President Hitler and imperialist. Forget about the general grumblings for a minute and think of what message that sends to our foes (whomever they might be).
Please, don't anyone think that I'm trivializing those brave lives lost; I'm not. However, if all it takes is 1,000 combat casualties to shake the "will" of the American people, then our country is in serious trouble.
And, in diametrical opposition to the 1,000 combat deaths is the 3,000 innocent civilians that were murdered on 9/11.
I don't know how so many could see the 3,000 innocent lives lost and respond with overwhelming support for the President and now being, let's say, less supportive.
There has only been one thing that has happened since then: we have gotten further away and the demonRATs and "the media wing of the demonRAT party" have completely sold it out for Kerry's re-election/Bush's defeat.
So, when leftists tell me that I can't challenge their patriotism, I say, "B.S. and I am challenging your patriotism because YOU are the reason why there has been a deterioriation of support for the President, our troops, and our fight in the war on terror".