[Elkiejg]

Oops - title date should read 12/22/04

[beaureguard]

You beat me!!

Did a search, but didn't see yours.

Good article today - Boortz isn't taking off for Christmas yet.

[Alien Gunfighter]

Iraq is not worth what the US has put into it. I blame Arabs who don't want peace, muslims who only want to murder in the name of their filthy, violent religion, and a US government that is more concerned with being loved by foreigners and 24 hour news networks than with winning a war and saving the lives of common soldiers.

It must be seriously demoralizing to the average soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan to know that getting caught doing his job (shooting 'insurgents') by a terrorist-sympathizer journalist with a camera (pretty much all of them) will get him court-martialed and jailed.

Let the scum fight it out amongst themselves, I say. We'll buy oil from the winner. Or maybe (just maybe) we'll get smart...and NOT buy oil from the winner.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"OK -- SO YOU DON'T WANT US TO BE THE "WORLD'S POLICEMAN" When asked a similar question ("Should the U.S. be the world's policeman?"), Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn replied "Better the U.S. as the world's policeman than the Soviets as the world's jailers". Since the Soviets are the model for communist repression everywhere, that is generally regarded to mean all communists by extension.

One can make an effective case of that applying to Saddam as well, since the Russian Soviets were his suppliers and military and political (which, under communism, are distinctly connected) mentors for decades. Now to be fair, so were we, but we bailed when we found out what how bad he was.

People in the West don't often see it, because the radical Arab world has done a great job of obfuscating it, but the politics behind Radical Islam are thinly veiled Communist doctrine and dogma. It's been taught in the universities in the Arab world for decades, and it's the root of the "haves vs. the have-nots" mentality of their "struggle". Strip away the religious connotations, and one sees basic dialectic Marxism at the core.

It is how they are able to murder millions of people around the world under the guise of religion.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

WORTH THE PRICE?

Freedom is a bargain at any price.

[abc1]

Better to fight them there now than here later.

We have lost a 1000+ well trained, good soldiers fighting these murdering punks.

Imagine the lives lost if we had to fight them in America with the resources of the police.

This is no slight against the law enforcement community, but, they are not equipped to deal with what these Islamofascists are doing now in Iraq now.

Never mind that now even the military is having to deal with the likes of the ACLU and the second guessing of the left.

The population of this country lacks the perspective of history to judge the losses and the cost of failing.

Just this week the History channel ran a documentary on the battle of Antietam during the American Civil War. There were 23,000 dead in one day.

One day, on one battlefield.

On D-Day at Normandy, the Americans suffered 2,400 casualties at Omaha on June 6.

That was on one day one of five (Gold, Juno, Sword, Omaha and Utah) sections of one battlefield.

This war was made on us. We have to answer the aggression lest we succumb to it.

To appease these malcontents as France and England did Hitler would be to suffer the same fate.

[democrats_nightmare]

Great post!! Enjoyed reading this!