OK, I was going to let you have the last word but you've pissed me off. You known damn well that our conversation had nothing to do with the soldiers in Iraq, and you have no right to suggest that I am belittling their efforts. The are most certainly fighting, and dying, for noble purposes.
What is absolutely unacceptable is that you would dare to compare your "struggle" as a third party supporter to the genuine and fruitful sacrifices of our soldiers.
Then why did you compare those who vote on principle to people leaping from tall buildings thinking they could fly or revolutionaries fighting without guns?
After all, didn't I write the following which you belittled as 'melodrama'?
"No, voting on principles is never a waste. Sometimes, people are even willing to die for their principles. I know this is a foreign concept to a party hack like yourself, but the truth is that Americans do all kinds of things even when there's no chance of winning."
So, soldiers and Marines can die for a principle, but I'm being melodramatic when I vote on one?