[Alia]

No, you are not wrong --you describe precisely what happened with Vietnam.

Too many people are yet alive, and with memory of what politico's did with Vietnam.

It isn't going to happen that way this time. And that is, IMHO, if conservative pundits and columnists can just stop slamming President Bush in the middle of their columns about "supporting the troops and supporting the War".

There are conservatives who are NOT helping matters in re the War, IMHO.

Sometimes, I don't think they see this matter, domestically, as clearly as I wished they would.

[stocksthatgoup]

Imagine you are 18, 19, 20, 21, you are in Iraq, you get the latest news from CNN, NBC, ABC, or CBS. You see Cindy Sheehan, Richard Clarke, Joe Wilson, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Dingy Harry etal tell you over and over again that you mission is based on a lie.

You hear from Congressman Murtha that your prescence is the problem and indeed making our country less safe. University professors paint you as a pawn, cannon fodder and suggest fragging is the answer.

Unlike the Vietnam body count, the only body count here is that of the good guys.

Anything you do for the Iraqi people, build schools, hospitals, protect voters etc is not dismissed, worse these acts go unremarked unnoticed un reported.

Yet in doing your job, making split second decision of life and death you may be tried and convicted of some charge you cant even imagine. And anyone who stand up for you and defends your mission is accused of playing politics while the critics are given saintly "insightful" status.

You are told you are fighting for Israel, not the United States. Your enemy is understandably upset for you are an invader not a liberator. They are not terrorist they are insurgents. If you weren't there, they wouldn't be a problem.

Now experience this day after day, month after month.