"I'd guess you never served."
Well, no, and neither have a whole lot of other people, including most of the civlian folks "running" this war. But that doesn't make a differnce, does it?
Are you saying that if you served you can magically divine the collective opinion of the servicemen and women over there and if you haven't served you can't?
I assume from your reply that you have nothing other than your "feelings" on this?
"I assume from your reply that you have nothing other than your "feelings" on this?"
Just don't understand, do you? Those who served, especially in a combat zone, give much more than their time, they give a portion of their soul and when people such as yourself begin casting pebbles, rocks, etc. toward their cohorts now serving, we all get sort of testy and begin to inquire about those who clearly didn't go thru the experience.
As to the people running the war, GWB served and volunteered to go to VN. Rumsfeld, like GWB, was a pilot, though earlier. When you say "those running the war," I presume you're attempting to castigate the two of them - it doesn't wash, you probably don't either.