[Redleg Duke]

It sounds like some else must have had a fellow grunt taking his "Tactics 101" final exam. Hackworth sounds like the militant wing of the "Hate America First" crowd.

[meenie]

I don't think that the attack against Iraq should be postponed until we have total security here. I am disappointed that there is not more urgency in protecting the public though. Part of the neglect we see here is the fact that we haven't had a war on our soil during the lifetime of our population.

This is also a different war. Sadaam is evil but this probably makes him a harder opponent than he should be. His defenses cannot repel our military forces and he knows this. His alternative is the same route we are taking. Play a hell of an offense and hope this offsets the lack of defense.

I hope I am wrong, but I am very suspicious that we have more terrorists here than we realize. If not, there soon will be. When Sadaam can hire a suicide bomber for $10,000 against Israel he can do the same against us.

One terrorist coming across the border with 50 pounds of C-4 in his backpack and we do not keep him out can spell a lot of deaths. We do not have to give up on confronting Sadaam and Iraq but we sure could do something about our security here.

We have enough national guard to make the borders air tight if we have the will to do this. If there are so many already here, then we better start cleaning them out of our population. We don't have to sit here and do nothing to protect ourselves.