[sakic]

Wouldn't you be shocked if the British did not praise America? Wouldn't it have been shocking to you if we couldn't mop the floor with Iraq? Soldiers that fight while being shot at by their own commanders have little chance of succeeding. The fact that you find this disparaging of American soldiers seems to be a convoluted way of thinking.

My motives are to give my honest opinions about what happened in Iraq. The fact that you question my motives paints you as someone who looks for enemies where there are none. That is a trait of people who suffer from paranoia.

[Miss Marple]

Well, you can call me paranoid, but I think the chronically critical have their own set of problems.

What part of "softening up the enemy" do you not understand? Are you so bent on saying this wasn't an excellent victory to the exclusion of fact?

Did you know that there is praise for this strategy from Russia? Have you not paid attention to the military experts who have been on every blasted cable channel for the last month?

Part of the strategy was to make the Iraqi Army less formidable when engaged by our groundforces. Why did Iraqi commanders have to threaten their troops? Psy-ops and air power, which were part of the strategy.

Apparently you think that the war started when we rolled our armor over the Kuwaiti border.