[cwb]

While the death of any US soldier is a horrendous loss, we have to remember that for over a decade now, US diplomats, missionaries, business people, etc., have been losing their lives around the world to these same people.

It's nice to see the media's concern for every soldier lost in Iraq...but maybe if the media paid as much attention to these US citizens who were losing their lives, we could've took the enemy more serious. Lives are expected to be lost in a time of war; the fact that we were losing them in a time of supposed peace...and the media didn't care, then, tells you something about the media.

[Tolik]

It's because they are cynical in their overwhelming desire to defeat Bush..

Despite my disagreement with isolationists, I see more good points in their argument from the right against the war in Iraq (it is not our business, lets them kill themselves, let's get out of there and kick them out of here) than from the left. This war is all about draining terrorism swamp by bringing classical liberal values to Middle East. Even if only some of them stick, it's great. We don't have to make Vermont out of Iraq to succeed in disrupting the quiet business of nurturing terrorism, and we killed many bad guys in the process.

I am sure that if President Gore did everything exactly the same as President Bush did (we can do this mental exercise), we'd have no anti-war movement of any significance.