[ChocChipCookie]

I think the NRA and their right-to-bear-arms mantra is a joke,

Good article, but what is this quote supposed to mean??

[91B]

My eyes locked on that too. This was fairly well written, but the good Major could have used an editor.

[boris]

"Good article, but what is this quote supposed to mean??"

It means he has not read the Constitution he swore to uphold.

[muawiyah]

The NRA reference is directed at the belief supposedly held by NRA members that rifles and pistols in the hands of individuals could repulse the power of guys with big guns, jet fighters, bombers, tanks, etc.

He notes, however, that even though he is there with the big guns, he, himself, is making use of a rifle, a pistol and a knife!

It's a way of saying the belief isn't as naive as he had imagined earlier ~ before he went into combat.

[Starve The Beast]

We knew we were there for one reason: to rid the world of a tyrant, and to give Iraq back to Iraqis.

After 9/11, it became clear to those of us who love America that something needed to be done about the Middle East, a festering swamp of incompetently run dictatorships that generate terrorists capable of flying airplanes into American buildings. Iraq, a known mass-murdering dictatorship and open supporter of terror and Islamic radicalism, was the logical place to start.

George Bush made one miscalculation, but it wasn't WMDs or links to al Qaeda. How could he have anticipated that the Left, both here and in Old Europe, would align itself so completely with the terrorists? That the Western news media would go so far out of their way to spin every day as a disaster for the coalition?