[Isle of sanity in CA]

BTW, are you of an age to serve? Have you served? Will you be part of whatever forces W sends to Iraq? Or are you one of those armchair commandos that is willing to spend the blood of others but not willing to put your own life on the line?

You are a disgrace to the Corp (if you ever belonged in the first place.) Take you're Hanoi Jane Ass Kissing self somewhere else with your asinine rhetoric. Since when has our military NOT been under civilian control?

BTW, Shead I did serve. I did put myself 'on the line' . This doesn't entitle you to belittle those who haven't.

Semper Fi

[Isle of sanity in CA]

See my 242. I hate it when people whip out the 'have you served' card... And there's a whole bunch of Marines over my way at Camp Pendleton that would agree with you...

[dcwusmc]

How wonderful for you. If you had read my post and seen who it was directed at... but no, that was too much bother...

I guess I was such a disgrace that I was in the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1993... and then got kicked out in shame and dishonor.... I was in Vietnam, too, bub. Were you? When the armchair commandos sent 58,000 people to come home in bodybags to no discernible effect and purpose? When people like Bobby MacNamara KNEW we could not win, yet hid that information from Congress and the President... THAT kind of civilian control? Or the kind that WON WWII because they had respect for the people who knew what they were doing and gave good advice to the decision makers?

My comment was addressed to the alleged chancellor palpatine, whoever that is... but it holds true for anyone wishing to send our kids off to die at the whim of a politician, especially when there are other ways to deal with the situation whereby we need NOT get bogged down in a situation that will most assuredly drag on and last decades. That is about the last thing we need to do.