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To: drellberg
I believe you may be correct. I think that what has brought some of the disparaging comments is that folks are equating your estimates with the tripe the MSM has been spouting about 600,000 + innocents being killed by our heroes. Between the bad guys we kill/capture and the innocents the bad guys keep slaughtering, your numbers are probably reasonable.

The problem I see, is that we have a choice of either going in with a real will to win, which will entail many more deaths of both bad guys and a substantial amount of innocents, or we can continue with the "compassionate" process and get nowhere. I praise God that I don't have to make the decisions, so I can opine any way I feel appropriate and not have to carry the spiritual burden.

God Bless President Bush and the great Nation he leads.

16 posted on 12/16/2006 6:29:36 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: trebb

Thank you, thank you! Not even so much that you agree that my numbers are plausible, but that you took my question seriously.

I'm not sure I agree with you that we lack the will to win. If these numbers are anywhere near correct, how could we reach any conclusion other than that we are winning decisively?

If our soldiers are this effective, if the militias are doing some of our dirty work for us, if the bad guys are being steadily rooted out of their hiding places around the world, what would you do differently? What bolder actions would expedite matters?

I guess I am of the opinion that this will be a decades-long WOT. If so, then patience and pacing are a virtue -- but a very, very hard sell to the American people.


18 posted on 12/16/2006 6:39:33 AM PST by drellberg
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