[Diddley]

At the same time, we are learning of the unspeakable attrocities committed by these "living, breathing human beings - fathers, husbands, with friends and relatives that love them, men with feelings, hopes, and dreams, whose only crime was defending their country".

[Conspiracy Guy]

Can't we all just get along? BARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRFF

[goody2shooz]

In the immortal words of General George S. Patton, "...you win wars by making the other dumb bastard die for his country!" Or words to that effect.

[Migraine]

With our overwhelming technology and weaponry we are waging what is essentially a predetermined, systematic slaughter

So -- basically she (he? it?) is saying: seeing how outgunned they were, the imbeciles should have 1) allowed inspectors unfettered access, or 2) surrendered before the war began. I agree!!!!

Hey, I just agreed with a certifiable bleeding heart. What's the world coming to?

[lsee]

uh...tens of thousands? Did I miss that headline? Conscripts? Haven't we been sheltering thousands of conscripts who have surrendered? Geez, people like this are so stupid. I wonder how poetically Lynn could have described the pathetic images of the dead Kurds who were gassed or the conscripts who refused to fight and were promptly shot, not by Americans, but by their own commanders? Probably a creative writing major, still in college, brain-full-of-mush, bleeding heart liberal.

[UncleSamUSA]

They had a two-word description for people like Lynn Jacobs during WWII:

That word was "Nazi sympathizer".

[thegreatbeast]

Ms. Jacobs is over the tops. But we would do well to respect the memory of our enemy, particularly the grunt humping his butt all over Creation to the orders of his commanders. I have heard many of our soldiers speak thusly. A life is a life.

[STFrancis]

Wondering if the Letter Writer ever heard of the Geneva Convention which prevents the very thing he talks about. Showing of dead soldiers....

[Nick Danger]

[laz17]

What about all the Iraqis Saddam and his henchmen have killed over the years, Lynn? What about them?

Go to hell, you sick, twisted, deranged freak.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"Our bullets and shrapnel rip their flesh, mutilate their vital organs, splinter their bones and leave bloody heaps."

Ummmm, yeah. That's pretty much correct. And your point would be???

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

But for each American death, literally hundreds of Iraqis die.

I thought that was pretty much the point. It's not a tennis match. Ironically, the more lop-sided the killing, the QUICKER IT ENDS! If the Japanese had thought they could hold out during a land invasion of Japan in 1945, there is no telling how many more hundreds of thousands would have died on both sides. Hiroshima and Nagasaki raised the price of war to a level Japan could not pay. When you mow 'em down like mowing a yard of grass, they quit.

In war, the cost for one side has to be too high to continue.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

And, BTW, we tried a "kinder, gentler war" in Iraq in 1991. It didn't turn out so well in the long run. Now we have to go back and do it the old-fashioned way.

[Senator_Blutarski]

With our overwhelming technology and weaponry we are waging what is essentially a predetermined, systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqi military conscripts whose only crime was defending their country.

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

An even greater number will suffer lifelong...psychological impairment.

Thus qualifying them for membership in the Democratic Party.

[IronJack]

for each American death, literally hundreds of Iraqis die.

Cool! The odds are coming along nicely!

Our bullets and shrapnel rip their flesh, mutilate their vital organs, splinter their bones and leave bloody heaps. The survivors grieve and suffer by the millions.

Stop it! I'm getting aroused.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I have reached the point where I don't even get mad at this crap anymore.

For some reason, and I think I know what it is, there is a significant portion of our population and that of Europe who simply do not have the capacity to discern good from evil.

I can't imagine what it must be like to be so blind. Do these people know that the evil they defend can befall them and they just don't care, or are they so completely deluded as to believe that they will be the ones untouched?

The only option we have is to press on with what we know is right and good and true and accept the fact that people who do everything in their power to stop good people from fighting for righteousness and winning will benefit from the blood and sacrifice of those good people.

I, for one, never thought I'd see this happening in America. I wonder if the men and women who gave their lives for this nation as it used to be would have done so if they could have seen their sacrifice spit on by so many who deserve to live under the tyranny those men and women died to prevent.

[MindBender26]

Actually, it was a rather kind war, as wars go. This is true for both sides.

The Coalition of the Winning lost few soldiers.

The losers lost many more, but a protracted battle would have cost them many more human losses. In wars where it is Islamic country v. Islamic country, prisoners are often executed. iraqi POWs were given food, water and medical care.

Carpet bombing of cities would have destroyed the infastructure and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, but we chose to restrict our bombing to military targets.

In reality, the Iraqis should be glad they got off so easy.

[rabidralph]

Each Iraqi soldier is also a living, breathing human being - a father, a husband, with friends and relatives that love him, a man with feelings, hopes, and dreams.

I think this topic was adequately covered in the Austin Powers movie where, at the end, the henchman is killed and they show his widow receiving the news and how it affects her.

[Luna]

Each Iraqi soldier is also a living, breathing human being - a father, a husband, with friends and relatives that love him, a man with feelings, hopes, and dreams.

Duh. The same with the Germans, Japanese, and King George III's redcoats. But that didn't stop us from killing them, did it? They were the enemy. What do you expect in war? Winning by playing a game of chess? "Checkmate!! My country wins."

Thank goodness I'm not a naive bleeding heart liberal. I'd have to take cyanide pills to put me out my misery.

[B4Ranch]

Our bullets and shrapnel rip their flesh, mutilate their vital organs, splinter their bones and leave bloody heaps.

I wish we would see some complete stories just once in a while.

She left out that dogs are comsuming the Iraqi corpses because we are not burying them!

Lynn, put in all the facts!

[DuncanWaring]

Each Iraqi soldier is also a living, breathing human being - a father, a husband, with friends and relatives that love him, a man with feelings, hopes, and dreams.

Actually, those who haven't surrendered or deserted by now are probably murderous thugs who think SH is the greatest man ever to walk the face of the earth.

They deserve to die.