[elwoodp]

Just how long is Bush going to allow these islamic freaks to slaughter American soldiers (and civilians) while we keep sheathed our "weapons of mass destruction."

Can you imagine going into a battle with a gun -- yet keeping it in your holster while your enemy cuts you to ribbons with a knife, because you "don't want to take unfair advantage"?

Come on Bush,show some guts. Do a Truman, and let's get this nonsense over with.

[section9]

Baloney. Most of the cave dwellers would be shielded from the effects of a blast, while our guys on the surface, would eat fallout.

Yes, we are taking casualties. Mountain warfare is like this. This is the first combat for the 101st. This is where the young leaders step forward and the NCO's start coming into their own. You will find as this goes on that the American airborne infantry has a great tradition of improvisation.

But we're going to lose guys. Good guys, too. Al-Qaeda has nowhere to go. We've apparently bagged a lot of the mofo's and they're going to fight like junkyard dogs, just like the Japanese Marines at Tarawa. We've sealed the escape routes, and they're all gonna die.

This is total war. Something the Eurotrash fail to understand. Of course, with the exception of our Brit and Canadian comrades in arms, none of those people are going to have have telegrams delivered to newly minted Gold Star mothers.

Damn.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Fury]

Can you imagine going into a battle with a gun -- yet keeping it in your holster while your enemy cuts you to ribbons with a knife, because you "don't want to take unfair advantage"?

Unfair advantage? When has this been the case in Afghanistan?

[sam_paine]

Do a Truman, and let's get this nonsense over with.

Please put your serious cap on! The nipponese were at least rational.

[rightwingextremist1776]

SAVE THE NUKES FOR MECCA!!

[doug from upland]

I am as heartbroken over the death of our soldiers as are you, however, this is a different kind of war. We can't kill millions of innocent civilians with WOMDs. But we should be dropping daisy cutter after daisy cutter where they have troops.

[Magnum44]

Come on Bush,show some guts. Do a Truman, and let's get this nonsense over with.

The president is showing guts! He's committed to the fight for the long haul. And with the weapons we have at our disposal, it is totally innappropriate to use nukes. As we were forewarned, we should be prepared for losses in this war if we believe the cause to be justified.

I regret to inform you but there is no quick fix in this war. We will be lucky to claim victory in 30 years, much less 10 or 5. The extremist elements of the 'have not' religions have been indoctrinating soldiers from the toddler age to hate the west and western lifestyle. This will take at least a generation to correct and we have barely started. We will have to be on gaurd for the threat from terrorist like those of OBL for the rest of our lives and, sadly, our children will live with this too.

[irish_lad]

Going nuclear at this point would be a disasterous move for us. There is no reason to do so unless we find the enemy has biological, nuclear, or chemical weapons. Once the nuclear cat is out of the bag, Katy bar the door.