[kjam22]

Before we went into Iraq the estimates were that 1 out of 4 Iraqi's either hated our guts, or would die for their cause, or both..... In a country of 20 million that means you gotta kill or change the minds of 5 million people. That ain't gonna happen. We don't have the makeup about us to do that.

[El Gran Salseron]

"We don't have the makeup about us to do that."

I agree completely.

I was upbeat and positive UNTIL I saw us cave in in Fallujah and agree to a one-sided cease fire. They just declared, a few days ago, "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Now we are in a one-sided cease fire in Fallujah so that we can negotiate with terrorists.

Now there are 2500 Marines sitting outside of Najaf waiting.

Waiting for WHAT?

The Bush administration is making the same mistakes as the Eisenhower administration in Korea, the same mistakes as LBJ made in Vietnam and the same mistakes as the bumbling Jimmah Cahtah with the Iran hostage crisis.

The government still hasn't "gotten it!"