[vicosal]

I guess any form of denying the obvious is considered treason-but Iraq is a lost cause.WE are getting our hats handed to us-in more ways than one-the thing is its impossible and dangerous to leave Iraq such a mess-but the congress and people of the US want it-so I just dont know that we can prevail much longer in Iraq.Oh,im just waiting for September when both dems/repubs demand a pullout.We are in a no win situation in that mud hole of Iraq.Anyone who denies this is blind to our political and military will-America is gone soft.We cant hande 3500 deaths -and this for our very existence to live as we please-If the terrorrists had planes and ships it wouldnt take much of a fight to get them to impose Islam on the soft American people.Why is there even an argument as to who is winning in Iraq when WE clearly are losing-and in all probability will completely lose by September of this year.What a joke !

[syriacus]

  I guess any form of denying the obvious is considered treason-but Iraq is a lost cause.

And to think Bush didn't get a chance to

1. reinstate the draft or
2. impose the severest press censorship,

like Truman's Administration got to do during the Korean war.

The Censorship rules

• Threatened to courtmartial newsmen who deliberately reported any troop movements without authorization.
• Placed correspondents under the complete jusrisdiction of the army and forbade any criticism of the Allied conduct of the war.
• Provided for screening dispatches for military information which might injure morale
• Forbade quoting officers without authorization
• Forbade revealing casualties before official publication

Many more regulations are listed at the link above.