[Dave S]

What I DO have is unshakable faith in my Country, and in our military forces, and you would be well advised to try and find some of your own instead of running around like a damn Chicken Little.

Dont get pissy with me. Get on Bush for refusing to unleash our military to end this thing decisively. Driving around patrolling in humvees serving as targets is not my idea of taking the fight to the enemy. Fabricate if we have to, but come up with an excuse to go in and level Sadr City and whereever else the Mahdi army has support. If people mass in the streets to protest, bring out AC-130 gunships and empty the streets. Make it a capital offense to be found with anything larger than a handgun and a couple clips of amo. Bring in a couple divisions of Kurds to do the policing in Baghdad. I'm sure they would show everyone the proper courtesy. Mine the frickin borders with Syria, Jordan, and Iran. Shot anything that moves along the border at night and force all entering the country to go through the kind of search we are forced to take at the airports. Also find out where the varous Iraqi leaders get their money (oil or whatever, and cut it off..maybe have some bank funds disappear). Convince them that if they dont get with the program, they as well as their power can disappear as well.

[mkjessup]

"Don't get pissy with me"

Little girls say that Dave. I'll get anyway I want to in responding to your troll-like posts, and there's not a thing you can do about it. Don't like that? Report me to the mods, I've already done that for some of your more pathetic posts.

As for the rest of your Apocalypse Now approach to Iraq, as emotionally gratifying as that might sound to you (and I confess having some of the same ideas), the only thing that will accomplish is the classic result of "we had to destroy the town (or country) in order to save it".

America is trying to help build a democracy in Iraq, not pave it from one end to the other to placate people like you who have 'anger issues'.