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One, in response to your brilliant response, I never mentioned the Marine Corp brass or the Defense Department as out to get the "heroes" being thrown to the wolves. I mentioned the Clinton leftovers in the State Department are the ones no one can trust. When the MSM say they have an "unnamed source" in the White House or where ever, it's most probably someone in State leaking information to make Pres. Bush look bad or to screw up plans in the making. Pres. Bush doesn't need any help looking bad, he does that fine without anyone else's help.

Two, I may be an armchair warrior now, but for over a decade during the Jimmah Carter and (my hero) President Reagan's administration, I served this country faithfully and without question. Just like 99.9% of the troops in the military now. I did my part and if you're thinking like a lib (sKerry), I can criticize what I see and hear from the government because I served.

Not everyone served, could have served or wanted to serve like I and thousands of others have. But I refuse to hold that detail against them. Everyone has an opinion and everyone has the right to voice it. My biggest issue is about people who are just flat out whiners and complainers who never take the time to talk to or research what they are commented on. If I had my way, everyone in our great country, who vote, would have to at least take a little time reading the booklets we ALL get from the election boards, just to get a tiny thought about what they are voting on. Listen to talk radio, watch MSM and hear their slant on the points, talk with people they know about the issues. Not just go to the voting booth and vote straight line either party or closed their eyes and point and vote that way. Voting is a privilege and civic duty. People from foreign country under the thumb of such dictators like Castro, etc.... would love to vote. Look at the percentage of people in Iraq that voted for the first time in decades. They had to travel miles and miles to get to a voting booth and face intimidation from the terrorists, but they still voted.

Overall and finally, as I have strayed from my main points, military personnel are trained to kill, not be policemen or referees. They kill and destroy. They are trained to react without thinking. Thinking will get you killed in warfare. The MSM, libs, and our enemies want the troops to flinch or think twice, so they will die or get wounded and eventually lose. We, as people thousands of miles away, should not Monday morning quarterback their every action and reaction.

Overall and finally, as I have strayed from my main points, military personnel are trained to kill, not be policemen or referees. They kill and destroy. They are trained to react without thinking. Thinking will get you killed in warfare. The MSM, libs, and our enemies want the troops to flinch or think twice, so they will die or get wounded and eventually lose. We, as people thousands of miles away, should not Monday morning quarterback their every action and reaction.

I wholly concur. I would add the basis of the action is the heresay of the indiginous who survived three decades of Baathist tyranny by complicity. That is to say, show me a good German on May 9, 1945.

The best evidence is off limits; i.e., no exhumation due to sensitivities of the persons cited in the paragraph above.

The current action has been conducted with such political correctness that it has spared Moqtada Al-Sadr whose militia targets and murders our people, yet prosecutes our people for attempting the impossible: to pacify that which will not be pacified in our lifetime.

As this commander in chief has sacrificed the two Border Patrol agents to placate the Mexican invasion, so it seems he is too quick to sacrifice our Marines to placate a perceived Iraqi street--a street I will point out which has vetoed and constrained our freedom of operation despite the clear fact it is our blood and treasure which has spared this people the mass graves of Saddam Hussein.

As we saw in the honey trap of the Moscow Embassy and the compromise of its Marine guard, the NIS exemplifies the ineptitude of the intelligence agencies which fail to warn us of 911 but are quick to crucify our warriors preventing the next one.

How many times will the Fallujahs and Sadr Cities rekindle into murderous fires before the new tone goes on the ash heap of history and the enemy is truly joined in battle.

The loaded phraseology of "civilian" and "innocent" belies the fact there are no uniforms and the only perceived organization is designed to trap our fighters.

Is it not too fine that the new SecDef authored in 2004 a CFR report calling for negotiations with the Iran which predicts that Israel and the U.S. will disappear, the Iran which as we discuss this issue is arming and equipping and directing this "insurgency" which murders our people.

If the command structure is that mad, why ought we be pursuing the fighting man in the street.

God Bless these Marines, for they have no friends at lower levels of command.