So, you pound on the "hearts & minds" point but you don't acknowledge the other points in my post. On top of that, you provide what I think is a "dumb" link that translates to name-calling.
Your link is so dumb it doesn't work!
Wise up, sir. When you disagree on an answer to your question, try to be fair in totality not picking and choosing.
This is what this forum is for, FRiend!
Our troops are being murdered because they are restrained; worrying about the hearts & minds of Iraqis and the world at large.
I can only assume you are talking about this. My question still applies.
It appears that you like others here don't seem to understand the why, how, and time frame of Iraq.
Why To establish a freely elected liberal government in Iraq. To provide an alternative to the dicatatorships that exist, or the jihadist ideology. You will recall that shortly after 9-11 the usual suspects started barking Root Causes Root Causes Root causes, of course by that they meant it's all our fault, but the President actually looked at what has being said by those in the area, one of their major complaints was lack of freedom. So he decided to address this....hence OIF. We didn't go in there just to kill a bunch of ragheads.
How to give the Iraqi people shot at freedom, and at this point given the history and culture they're not doing too bad. Now you may disagree but if you go to the Iraqi blogs & the milblogs you'll see a different story than the one we see everyday in the DBM.
Time Frame How many times has the Persident and others dsaid this is a generational war? You think they're kidding? They're not. As I've said before this is the cold war and it's 1952.