[LS]

Funny, if you even bothered to see the effectiveness of our forces---without slaughtering innocent women and children---you'll find that for 200 years they have been extremely effective at knocking off the enemy without committing suicide. Again, I refer you to the Marine honor code, and I don't see anything in that about leveling unarmed civilians. Could be wrong, though.

[F.J. Mitchell]

For a lot of those two hundred years, our enemies proudly wore uniforms that helped us to determine who was the soldier and who was the civilian. In those days the enemy, as evil as some have been, left the civilian women and children far behind the field of battle, and never used them as weapons to beguile and murder our troops. They never used the innocent as human shields.

Those days are gone forever, and until we the USA wise up to that fact, our rules, regulations, and such shit, is guaranteeing the loss of way too many of our troops than need be.

I am for as many of our heroes as possible, coming home alive and able to hear our expressions of praise and respect on the days that we honor them. May those heroes who die on the battle field, never perish because of our stupid belief that wars can be regulated by rules, like a frigging football game.