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What did you originally expect?

I'll tell you this much, if you think we are up against just the Iraqi's then you are not getting all the news. We are up against Syria and Iran, plus SA and Jordan from the standpoint of bases of support for terrorists.

Worldwide terrorists incidents are down.

Know why?

Because the original goal of the war was as follows:

1. Remove one of the world's major sources of terrorist encampments, supply, training, and control.
2. Get rid of a tyrant, the likes of which we haven't seen since Hitler.
3. Make terrorists fight professional soldiers instead of civilians in office buildings.

Against these goals, we're doing pretty well.

Loss of life? Get used to it, because it isn't even close to over with yet.

Let's say we pull out of Iraq. How long before another 9/11 occurs? They'll use our exit as a massive recruiting poster.

This isn't about Iraq any more. We are cleaning up after almost 70 years of neglect by both us and Saudi Arabia. We let this recruitment and training of children in Madras' happen for generations. Neither of us did anything to stop it. Now both countries, and now the rest of the world is paying the price.

Give up now, and you will never know if the next glass of water you draw from the tap will be infected with some biotoxin.

In WWII, we were losing 300 to 400 soldiers PER DAY. Losing one soldier in this conflict is too high a price, but it is the price nonetheless. Our grandfathers and fathers have set the price, and now we are paying it.

This is only the first tab we need to pick up. Next will be medicare, and after that will be Social Security.

This is the price of appeasement. It's the price of not dealing with Khobar Towers, WTCI, USS Cole, Kenya Embassy Bombing, Beruit Barracks Bombing, TWA 800, Sudan, and other 'ignored' or 'routine criminal' investigations.

It's the price we are paying for withdrawing early from Viet Nam, knuckling under to pressure from the press and not waging the war on the ground.

The fastest way to lose this war is for it to become political. Syria is going to have to be next. WMD's were positively identified and confiscated in a foiled attempt on an embassy in Jordan. Those WMD's were traced back to Iraq. It isn't in the news, but it's a fact nonetheless.

We don't get to walk away from this. We shouldn't have walked away from the other incidents when they happened.

If you want to live in a city without walls, rough men will have to die in other countries to allow you that privilege.

That is the situation.