[Burkeman1]

Hey- where is your answer bright boy? What did the next American soldier in Iraq that wll die - Die for Prodigal Son? Tell us and then tell his family.

[Prodigal Son]

What the heck are you talking about? I'm completely dumbfounded by your posts.

The war in Iraq has been going on for over 12 years. I enlisted for it myself when it started.

I'm just telling you the WMD aren't important to me. What's wrong with that? That isn't why we went to war there. It was used as a reason to end the war, perhaps based upon faulty intelligence but this is another matter. The war had gone on long enough, don't you think? How else would you have ended it that is actually realistic?

I think the American soldier on the ground has his own justifications for doing what he does. I know I did when I was an infantryman. I would surely not have liked being used politically by people such as yourself.

[Prodigal Son]

Also, I'm not sure a discussin about election nervousness and my comments regarding them get sidetracked on the latest casualty figures.

How does this relate to the article posted?

[arasina]

You know what, Burkeman? Soldiers are unselfish. Just look at the words we use in describing them: serve, give, protect, honor, fight for, die for. I saw yesterday where one of Iraq's new military police force was badly injured in Tuesday's bombing. He wants to go back to that same dangerous job as soon as he recovers. I read stories about our own soldiers who do the same thing. They possess an unselfish love for protecting the freedom of others.

Why do you ascribe to them and their families a selfishness that does not exist? "Tell us and then tell his family," you say. Of course the families grieve the loss of their brave sons and daughters. They also know the cause was just, with or without WMDs. You dishonor them by saying they are putting their lives on the line for what you consider to be "nothing" if no WMDs were found.