Some days are and will be bleak. I too get upset when things don't appear to be going well. When even one of the coalition troops are killed, wounded, return with missing limbs. I too get upset with the Iraqi people for not being proactive in fighting for their freedom. But then I remember the threats that we continuously receive from the islamic fundamentalist who want nothing more than to see me and mine dead.
This war is not only about freeing the Iraqi people, it is much more. It is about keeping us free also. In my favorite internet file I keep an article from 2002 of a threat to the American citizens that we all must die because we support our military by paying taxes and that we must convert to Islam or else.
Do I think some mistakes (decisions) were made during Iraqi freedom? Yes, I do.
We did not start this war. I remember where I was when I first heard about the first plane hitting the first WTC tower. And every since I have learned more and more about the hatred some (a lot) have for America and desire our demise and it did not start with George W. Bush taking office.
Hang in there, when Iraq is said and done it still will not be over. It will be a long hard slog.
To the islamic fundamentalist:
Rabka uhalla, your god is not great
This is a very good observation. Some of us understand that Operation Iraqi Freedom is just one part of a wider, bigger broader struggle, the Global War on Terror. A struggle that was ongoing well before 9/11 but most of us only recognized on that fateful day ... and which some STILL dont fully grasp! ... Others dismiss Iraq as some token 'optional' war. But our GWOT is against particular ideas and actions, and Saddam was in the thick of it, along with other regimes.