Holy Crap! You want to hear the truth about Iraq? Ask between the ranks of LtCol and Capt, E5 - E8.
You all hear from the mouths of the Bn Commanders who are leading this fight and because it doesn't agree with what some ahole politician has been saying you get your panties in a bind. These are the ones leading the fight, not hanging around on some base eating effin pizza.
Guess what? They want to win!!!
Do you? You all sound more intrested in propping up some political party.
You say you are in Iraq; and you say you are not a soldier. What are you doing in Iraq, Yut? How do you come by this "data" you proffer?
Sounds like you are propping up the party that wants to lose and see America humiliated ala Vietnam, the democrats.
Easy does it big guy. In the first place those captains and colonels would be very disappointed to learn they are in the E5 thru E8 paygrades. But speaking of paygrades, there are considerations outlined for all to hear, by Rumsfeld, which go way above the paygrade of light colonels. It would behoove those who don't know these factors to educate themselves on what the colonels and captains used to like to call "the big picture."