Jekyl
1. No evidence of DIRECT ties to 9/11. Certainly a major sponser of terrorism, and therefore the Presdient is authorized, by 100% vote of Congress on 9/13, to take action.
2. What does technology have to do with being well prepared. The Russians had much better technology the the Afgan's. Who was better prepared?
3. Ted Kennedy and a lot of the media and Hollywood seem to think so.
4. Sure, report on dead Iraqui's, compare it with Saddam, and report on dead terrorists also.
5. Obviously innocents are sometimes hit but our guys, at risk of their own lives, take every step to minimize innocent casualties, unlike the terrorists who target innocents because they are afraid of our troops.
6. Isreal has been fighting terrorists since their inception. Should they quit fighting them and just die?
7. I follow the news fairly closely and have seen very little on the terrorist atrocities when compared to the huge press give Abu Ghuraib.
8. What happened at Abu Ghuraib was humiliation, not torter. We are also prosecueting those responsible, unlike the terroristrs who praise merders. And, oh by the way, the terrorists are not subject to, have not signed, nor do they suscribe to the Geneva Convention. In spite of that, because we are morally superior, we attempt to follow it.
9. In spite of the fact that putting weapons in Mosques makes them a legit target, we try to minimize damage to them, and take casualities doing it.
10. The entire world, including France and Germany, were completely convenced he had WMD's. He had used them so he certainly had them at one point. Prehaps a better question is what happened to them? What was in the convey's of trucks moving into Syria and guarded by Saddam's special troops?
11. Prosecute those truely involved in torture. Embarrassement and discomfort is not torture.
12. I guess Saddam was just an innocent bystander while we distroyed his country.I repeat, if you harbor terrorists you are a target.
13. Sounds like the argument about the Japanese not being like us and not wanting freedom that took place after WW2. By the way, did you know there were just very successful elections held in Iraq? Better turn out then the US.
14. No serious military officer has not read these standard texts. Have you?
A well read and highly trained military officer sounds like a loon because he disagrees with you? The fact that he is educated in war, experienced, well read and in the area makes him a little more qualified then you or I. What was the cost of 9/11? We have these terrorists on the run. Keep them running, keep them dying, and we can reduce our chances of being hit again, although we almost certainly will be. We are at war. Submission rarely if ever works, therefore, we fight.
