[ConservativeStandUP]

The only thing that Anti-War Conservatives and Liberals love more than Dead American Men and Women coming home in wooden boxes is this:

Victorious Men and Women coming home pre-maturely so that their sacrifices can be dismissed as being in vain.

Why? Because it furthers their agenda of Isolationism. Clowns like you and this author have forgotten 911 and have forgotten that we didn't seek this war. This war sought us. Sure it stinks, but what's the alternative? Its defeat--which happens to take us back to my original point.

Sorry dude, you can't pull up the drawbridge and keep us safe from the meanies out there. They want to kill us, if you are too gutless to see it, get out of the way, because America has a war to win.

Oh yeah, and by the way, EVERY AMERICAN service person over in IRAQ Volunteered, they knew the risks going in. Stop trying to make them look like victims and pu%^ys. It does them no honor.

[sheltonmac]

Clowns like you and this author have forgotten 911 and have forgotten that we didn't seek this war.

Are you referring to the war in Iraq or the war on terror? Contrary to what you may think, they are not one in the same. The 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by a terrorist organization with no ties to Iraq. We went after them in Afghanistan (while ignoring their direct link to Saudi Arabia, but that's another issue). The fact is that this administration was gunning for Iraq from day one, and it has exploited the 9/11 tragedy ad nauseum to further its agenda.

[Burkeman1]

Reservists did not sign up to fight wars 10'000 miles away from these United States. They signed up to defend this Country. On 9/11 we were attacked by 19 men who walked through our front door and killed 3000 Americans and several hundred foreigners by hijacking planes with box cutters. How the lessons of 9/11 lead you to think we should be in Iraq is something you should think about. And considering we will spend more on border security in Iraq this year than we do on our own borders should make even you blink.

I had a conversation the other day with a wise man. He said that if one hates America that person would wish us to be in Iraq.

May I suggest you read Chronicles Magazine and the American Conservative if just to get an idea of why other conservatives disagree with you?

And PS- The term "isolationism" is a made up term by those who seek an intrusive American foreign policy and a big government at home. America has never been "isolationist".