[Recourse]

Some of these left-wing Brits are so rabidly anti-American they border on the insane.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

On the day he made his announcement, Iraqi insurgents killed one US soldier and wounded six others.

The death of any American soldier is a high price to pay, and I do not take their deaths lightly. They paid the price for their country, and as an American, I am indebted to them.

However, Uday and Qusay were high-ranking members of Hussein's regime.

To equal their deaths, the Baathists would have to have killed Cheney and Rumsfeld on the same day.

[dandelion]

"Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell."

Damn, that means we should just have given up and bowed down to the darkness. So I guess we should have thought of that before we killed Hitler, crushed the Communists, or fed the world.

Logic dictates that since we sought to "drag heaven down to earth" with our righteous wars, an engineered hell would be modern Europe...

[fourdeuce82d]

The chapel in which he spoke had been consecrated not just by God, but by the fact that George Washington had once prayed there.

although the author didn't intend it to be, I consider that a reasonable, admirable sentiment.

Buddhist, Jew, Muslim (after we check IDs *grin*)Shinto- all are welcome to feel connected to, and reverance for, that structure- regardless of whether they have accpted Christianity or not. I would be happy if they thought of themselves as AMERICANS, and I would leave their spiritual life to a higher command authority.

[xzins]

George Bush declared that the war there was over

He declared the heavy combat phase to be over. That is correct.

We are now in a mop-up/peacemaking environment.

[RaceBannon]

These idiots need to realize this is not a resistance against occupation, these are clowns who didnt want to get shot in combat, chucked their uniforms, and took up a guerilla warfare as they planned to do all along!!

[wretchard]

In an unintended way, Monbiot is right. The idea of America has broadened to include not just the traditional definition of a country, with certain borders and a capital city, but also to denote a set of values and an outlook. Because of that, the idea of America has tended to attract a lot of people, not all of them strictly Americans, who see it as the respository of the things they broadly believe in.

Monbiot would have no trouble understanding the "Big Tent" attraction of the Left -- which is by the way, a religion too -- but he cannot see that those who would oppose the Left might seek a Big Tent of their own. In a way, Monbiot recognizes that America poses a mortal threat to his own rancid belief system. He would, as certain others did 2,000 years ago, seek to crucify those would disagree with him. For that reason, he hates America.

[mhking]

Just damn.

[Eva]

What a piece of hateful garbage.