[DoughtyOne]

Sarah Brady is trying to rid guns from a stable society. I am advocating eliminating guns and explosives from the populace in a war zone. When Iraq is stabalized and able to function on it's own two feet, I have no problem whatsoever with them once again allowing private citizen ownership.

You're comparing me to Sarah Brady, is like comparing our citizens with former Republican Guard members in Iraq.

[KQQL]

TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE IN IRAQ.

[lelio]

I am advocating eliminating guns and explosives from the populace in a war zone.

If you were in a war zone would you give up your gun? And if you were feeling altruistic, do you think your neighbor whose been a warlord all his life will be?

I think the solution is the exact opposite: start giving the law abiding Iraqiis arms and showing them how to use them. Granted some might sell them to terrorists, but how is that different from what we have now?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Bush says that liberty/freedom is a gift from God and the reason we are there. You need to be able to defend yourself to have liberty/freedom.

[Triple Word Score]

You're right.

Prayers for those who are there.

I think the biggest part of the problem is that we aren't retaliating decisively. Take the town where corpses were desecrated. Give the populace five hours to get out, search everyone as they leave, shoot anyone who has weapons on them, presume anyone who does not comply 100% with clear instructions to leave and not bring weapons out is a terrorist to be shot on sight. Then level the freaking town and anyone who didn't obey our command to leave. Salt the ground around it. Repeat as needed. The Japanese needed two such lessons of town leveling and this method is more humane than that one was. Are the Iraqis smarter or dumber? It won't take more than three town levelings and the clear message that Bagdhad could be next, and they'll quit. It might not even take more than one.

But we can't keep ignoring this. When ten year old kids are kicking the heads of dead American civilians--people there to help them rebuild--its' time to send the message, we ain't having any.

They can be civilized. They can lose their tolerance for terrorists in their midst. They need help getting there, obviously. Clear self-interest is always a great motivator. Tell a kid the litter box is going to be moved into her room the next time she forgets to change it without being told, and her door will have to be taken down so that the cats always have free access, and sure enough, she starts changing it without being told.

[WoofDog123]

"Sarah Brady is trying to rid guns from a stable society. I am advocating eliminating guns and explosives from the populace in a war zone. "

How can we get rid of relatively small items like kalashnikovs when we cannot get rid of RPGs, other heavier ordnance?