[shortstop]

As usual, Lonsberry says it as plain as day, and says what we all are thinking.

[Thrusher]

I wish I could have this entire article as my tagline.

[frankenMonkey]

A great read...

[roses of sharon]

It must be hard in Iraq when DC and Americans take on the pathologies of the enemy, (Mark Steyn today).

[corlorde]

Bingo

While a bunch of idiots in Washington run around like chickens with their heads cut off, reading reports and making speeches and posing for the cameras. A bunch of idiots, charged by the Constitution to lead, quantifying and debating a failure.

[2banana]

Why they fight...

Dear Editor:

For several years now, American service members (all volunteers) have been fighting in combat in the war against terrorism in far away lands.

I was "over there" also, serving with the US Army in Afghanistan.

So why do they do it? Why do people voluntarily risk their necks for a year at a time while we sleep safely in our beds?

After many, many conservations with the "grunts on the ground," I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight:

1. No one is fighting so that a mother can abort her child up to the day before delivery for any reason.
2. No one is eating MREs for 6 months straight so that they can pay higher taxes.
3. No one is risking their life on a daily basis so that "Daddy and His Boyfriend" can be taught to our children in public school.
4. No one is dodging mortar rounds so that trial lawyers can sue companies and doctors into oblivion.
5. Not one grunt is sleeping in the mud so that one day he can register and/or turn-in his personal guns when he gets back home.


Regards,

2banana

[liberty_lvr]

Outstanding. This is going out for mass distribution to my contact list.

[Rutles4Ever]

This is an amazing piece. Thanks for posting.

[USMCWife6869]

This is so true that it actually makes me want to cry.

[Thrusher]

It’s almost as if they forgot they’ve got an army in the field and an enemy with satellite TV. It’s almost as if every stinking one of them is incapable of realizing what it does to a man in uniform to have his legs cut out from under him, to have his own country debating his failure, to have his own government cursing his mission.

I've been accused by other FReepers of not having the proper "perspective" on Iraq such that I am allowed to make any commentary on our policy there. Apparently, this means that, because I am not actually in Baghdad, I'm not supposed to comment on the war.

But perhaps I am allowed to post the comments of a good friend of mine who does have the required "perspective" because he does have his "boots on the ground."

He emailed me about the cut-and-run crowd, and the implications of our "changing Iraq policy." He looks at the Iraqis over there working with them, trying to build a democracy hand-and-hand with the American troops, risking their lives every day, too.

Those Iraqis are in deep sh!t if the pols decide to gather up their blue-ribbon skirts and run away, pulling the real men (the U.S. soldiers) with them. We made those Iraqis promises. We told them we would stand by their side and see the mission through. They trusted us. And if we desert them, they are dead meat. Literally.

The family, friends, and neighbors of those Iraqis who get cut down after we cut-and-run will remember. They won't put a "We Remember" bumper sticker on their car and then immediately begin to forget. Their media won't hide the pictures of the aftermath because it is too painful for them to watch. They will remember. There children will remember.

And someday, they may decide to show us just how p!ssed off they are about it. They may decide to do something we can't help but take notice of, like perhaps driving some planes into some buildings in a major American city.

Or worse.

[prov1813man]

Right now, as always, the only correct policy regarding our people in harms way, is massive support and a free hand to do what is necessary to WIN, which means KILLING AS MANY ENEMY COMBATANTS AS POSSIBLE.

Or, bring every single one home, right now, today. If I had a kid over there, in sniper sights while these morons equivocate, I would be very angry. I am angry anyway.

No, either earn "respect" the only way that works over there by beating the crap out of the enemy. Or, pull back, nuke up, and dare these bastards to give us any crap at all.

They are laughing and snickering at us now. Thanks to all who stayed home to "teach pubs a lesson".

[RightWhale]

In hard numbers the 172nd Stryker Brigade is 90% back in the State, less the 26 who were killed in Iraq, including the 7 who were killed during their four month tour extension. I haven't asked any of them if we should just throw in the towel on Iraq at this point, but I expect it would be difficult for most of them to maintain their equanimity at such a question.

[Volunteer]

"When the people who won congressional elections speak of your war in spiteful and gleeful terms. When the traitors in anchor chairs puff up over a “civil war” and daily deride your sacrifices."

This is the truth.

I know it is the truth because I am sitting at my desk feeling how angry and sick I am about these traitors and blame-America-first law makers.

[MEGoody]

A failure secured in the halls of the Pentagon and the offices at the White House.

I haven't agreed with everything the Pentagon and White House have decided to do in this war, but I'm no military expert, and this is certainly a different type of enemy than we've fought before, so I give them more than the benefit of the doubt.

There are many leftists, however, with even less qualification than I to criticize the war who can't seem to stop yapping.

[ryan71]

The best thing America has going for it, our people in uniform, and we have failed them miserably.

[hosepipe]

Good rant...

[91B]

Bump.

[octobersky]

Well said.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

a war won by heroes on the battlefield and lost by castrati in the Capitol

Absolutely makes the blood boil.