[snippy_about_it]

I don't think it is the casualty count that is causing the problem with the right. I think what some of us (me included) would like to see is a harder stance taken. This war is too PC for me. As an example, I would have preferred we flattened Fallujah the first time.

[colorado tanker]

Snippy, I agree we need to drop the kid gloves treatment. I was really disappointed we backed down the first time in Fallujah.

But what I'm worried about are the critics on the left who are calling for a pullout or a "timetable." All those statements do is tell the terrorists to keep it up and America will cut and run again, just like we did in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia. What the Democrats are saying will lengthen the war and put our troops at greater risk, but apparently that doesn't matter as much to them as political gains.