[Barney Gumble]

Wow, this is an excellent op-ed which sums up my feeling. I'm tired of Bush worrying about offending Muslim sensibilities while Americans die.

There has been no real retaliation for Fallajah massacre

Insurgent attack continue a year on.

Entire Iraqi cities are off limit because they all seem to be “holy.”

This war cannot be waged with half-measures.

Well said! That’s how we lost Vietnam and how we are going to lose in Iraq.

Mr. Bush, when did you get scared of the leftist media?

[guitfiddlist]

This is war. And when you take war seriously - you attack what the other side values, else you're not serious about winning. Did we surmise in WWII that German and Japanese civilians in Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the ones pulling triggers? No, we bombed them BIG time - and brought the war to an end.

That means that those who harbor terrorists in their midst should be considered to be worthy targets. Dancing in the streets after an execution like this should earn an AC-130 visit. A mosque advocating resistance should earn a MOAB. A whole town fighting the US armed forces should be leveled, after a decent interval to allow people to exit through controlled lines.

Notice how all "reasonableness", "progressivism" and "equanimity" goes right out the window when ONE execution is seen? As if 9-11 never happened. The American public is serenely out of touch, until an ordinary citizen is brutally murdered. Then they suddenly remember, for a few nano-seconds, what war is all about. Time to capitalize on it.

[Hewar]

Very Barbaric and brutal but, what about other murders that you do not see, for these people this is very natural and normal, we know what these people are capable of, have you heared about (Nugrat Salman)prison, it is the symbol of brutality and the criminal mind of these people it is a symbole of kurdish genocide, Go to kurdistan and ask any one what Nugrat Salman means to you and listen to their stories,it is aplace in Arab desert (south of Iraq) were kurds have never seen and imagin to see in their live even they could not talk the language these terrorists and murderers were speaking, there women
and small children who were dying of hunger and thirst were thrown to the desert for dogs to eat them, ask how many kurds have been eaten by dogs of their desert, not all the 182000 who disappeared during 1988
are in mass graves, Kurdish satellite channels have programs showing these real witnesses and a large number of documents showing these brutalities to the world if the world wants to listen and see. If they stay in power and supported by Arabs the world will see the real terror as we have seen.
Have we occupied their land ? have we waged war against them? have we terrorised their prisoners? we were " Iraqi's"
why these criminals have not retaliated from Saddam for his crimes against Iraqi's? now they are doing what Iraqi's have not asked them to do in the name of Iraqi's. They should disappear if not the world will be the most dangerous place to live in as we have lived with these criminals for last 80 years since world war one.

[arthurus]

Losing in Iraq will just mean that Israel will suddenly face more pressure than it ever has before and so will the US military everywhere else it is in Asia and Africa. If we chicken out in Iraq we will be foced out of Central Asia and the moslem countries that are cooperating with us will suddenly fear that cooperation much more than the islamists. Pakistan will flip again and Afghanistan will become quickly untenable. The Sauds will be chased out of Arabia and/or killed and the oil will be shut off. And all this stuff will very shortly start coming home to buildings and bridges and dams and cities in America.

[PleaseNoMore]

My 17 yo son and I watched the video last night. The young man Berg's screams haunted my mind all night long. I thought of the many that have been slaughtered in a like fashion in the name of Islam. Before I viewed the video I understood that our enemy is a perverse creature but now I sense the true nature of these monsters. We aren't dealing with a group of people with screwed up ideology. We are fighting evil and fighting for our very existance. My son asked me "Mom, what will it take for us to get "real" in Iraq? Will it take this sort of thing happening over here?" What do you tell your children of their future as long as these barbarians exist?

[txrangerette]

Scared of Leftist Media?

You made that up to slam the
President. For all ANYONE knows,
Bush, Rummy, Myers, Abizaid, the
regional Marine Commander, etc.
are doing what they believe to
be tactically wise. That's just
a truism; irrefutable. You shaft
truth, and them, by claiming to
know WHY they do what they do.

But I'll bet you already realize
that...how could you not? Gotta
assume you have a few marbles.

Doing it anyway is .... I better
not say more.

(My ... to the rest of the BOMB
'EM ALL Bush-slanderers.)

Prayers for America & her leaders

[ought-six]

How many friggin' holy sites do these folks have? Is every place mad mo took a crap a holy site?

[Cobra64]

Indeed, you can't get much more barbaric than the filmed beheading of 26-year-old Nick Berg that splashed across a terrorist group's Web site yesterday.

Where can I find the video. I want my leftist acquaintences to see it.

[Bikers4Bush]

What an excellent, excellent Op-ed.

[The South Texan]

This editorial about sums up my feelings over this. I would add this:

To hell to what the French and the rest of the Euroweenies feel.

[going hot]

It's the only way to win this war.

This, or any other war.

[Paved Paradise]

You are so right! You are so right! What are we being such nambie-pambies?