[leadpenny]

Thoughtful post. I have just one comment.

Again, the reasons for this can be placed at so many doorsteps...

imo, there is only one set of doorsteps.

[PigRigger]

In my book....Many of the Dems and Repubs, at all levels, have let us down to varying degrees....

I'd rather not identify people in particular.....there would be so many to name...

I also believe the electorate, we the people, are to blame as well....We should have expected more form our leaders and not bought into the propaganda....from either side...

War is not for the feint of heart, nor is it predictable....and a lot of second guessing can be made after the fact....but sometimes it appears that we our own worst enemy....and that I cannot understand and find very hard to accept....it only puts our troops in so much more danger....

[lonestar67]

I have observed your posts on many Iraq threads. They are completely unhelpful.

The idea that we only want to know bad news from Iraq about US deaths is absurd.

We are fighting a propaganda war against our own media and defeatists like yourself.

We are winning this war. Your hero Cindy Sheehan has admitted defeat in this war.

The US has won and continues to win the war in Iraq.

There is little defeatists can do about this until mid 2009 at the earliest.

I am so glad Bush is in control.

Iraqis HATE Al Qaeda more than Americans do. This is an astounding hearts and minds win for America that far exceeds any sense of defeatism being promted by the right, left and MSM.