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Which promises? How about massive amounts of WMD's. How about we'd welcome and they would embrace us as liberators. How about the violence would subside when Saddam, Usay and Qusay were captured or killed, how about we are there to free the Iraqi's from brutal treatment when "U.S. Probes 8 More Iraq, Afghan Prisoner Homicides". How, if these are homicides, does this make us any different from those who killed Nick Berg? You can't even use the "he was a civilian, cause those who died may also have been civilians too. Because we praise and worship the right God does that make it better? What about we will have Iraq as a sovereign nation when in fact they will govern as we impose or be retaken over. We will leave if asked, but then again, we won't be asked (wink, wink).

MEG, I am being placed in a camp where being critical of wrong makes one either patriotic or liberal. Well that's not the case. I'm trying to settle between right and wrong. That's why moderates are seen as testing the waters. We don't believe in ideology alone. We want our ideology to reflect the correct standard, not just a standard right or wrong. Not a safe standard, not an ideological standard, but the right standard. And sometimes that can be a moving target.

But to see some of your earlier replies to me and others, you are practically implying taking the lesser of the evils. If that is the case, then let's admit it. But you are now beginning to admit to blemishes I have picked the best candidate,admit he isn't perfect...already know war is hell and not predictable,and back my man. I feel no need to prove my objectivity and even handedness..on this Presidency that for so long you and others tried to stiffle. Maybe if those who were looking for truth and what is correct were able to advance without being labeled as wishy-washy, liberal or worse, we would a have avoided the morass we are in now.

76,000.

Process that number. Just five months before the end of the WWII, Adolf Hitler launched a final offensive against Allied Troops in something called the Battle of the Bulge. 76,000 American men and women were killed in just six weeks.

We have lost about 770 men in one year in Iraq. There is no question that every death counts and there is no question that the people who have given their lives for our country should be remembered forever but it is small compared to the huge sacrifice that other generations have given in defense of their country.

We are in a blood war against terrorism. The war in Iraq was always a good idea and it continues to be. Mistakes have been made. What a shock. Mistakes are made in wartime. We must continue to prevail. After 9/11, it simply was beyond the pail to keep Saddam Hussein in power (as you seem to wish that we had done). Had he remained in power, there would have be a huge backlash from the right. I would have been one of them.