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Hmmm,

I really don't know too many folks who are claiming "everything's going great in Fluke!" I think some of us are just not so quick to claim "the sky is falling," "politicans have ruined the war," or "Bush has failed" everytime something does not go according to someone's idea of how the war should be fought.

A different idea is fine...just I hate to see so many FReepers want to throw Bush and his folks out with each days news.

If D-Day happened today, with all those casualties and some of the mistakes that were made, the press and many Americans would be screaming for Eisenhower's head on a platter and for the military to be withdrawn from the French coast immediately...for all was certainly lost. I guess I am glad they had more patience back then (or less news coverage perhaps).I expect this from the left...just hard to swallow from the right.

War is an ugly thing. We may be doing it all wrong. But then again, maybe not. I am just saying folk's need to take chill pills at times.

A balanced, nuanced, civil post from someone who disagrees with me on this issue! Thank you. And I'm *not* being sarcastic, either. Every time I've posted my opinion on a thread regarding this topic, the ad hominen name-calling has commenced forthwith, and continued without let-up. Something about the issue seems to set some people off into hyperbole-land.

As to your comments, I agree with most of them. *I* certainly don't want to "throw Bush and his folks out with each days news"--quite the contrary, I intend to vote for Bush this November regardless. But I do feel the policy regarding Fallujah *specifically* is flawed, and needs to be revised. Now it's quite possible that I've got it all wrong, but I can only go by the information I have at hand. Feeling that the policy is wrong and needs to be changed is not quite the same thing as declaring that the "sky has fallen"--some may feel that way, but I don't. Another trite, sloppy rhetorical tactic has been to declare "well, you just want to flatten the whole place" (you haven't leveled that charge, but some have), when all I've called for is all *necessary* force, not *ALL* possible force, instantly applied.
In any event, thanks for your civil reply. It was a refreshing change of pace from some of the replies I've recieved on threads pertaining to this singular topic.