Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
So it is all about "whopping ass." Once again...manly men whopping ass.

The last war we won...WWII ...we didn't start. We were attacked. It was a just war. We did not "win" in Korea, we did not "win" in Viet Nam. Rest assured that my WWII era parents are just as opposed as I am to this excursion.

Soldiers deserve respect...and I give it to them. I've heard no one quarrel with that. Where or when Richard do you perceive ANYONE disrespecting them??? That is a copout.

It is not about the men and women doing the fighting...it is about those sending them to do it. It is about the reason they are being sacrificed.

You use personal attacks and clever word play to put down those who have different opinions than you.

How about answering the question...why are we there?? To whop ass, to show the size of our cojones?

I don't know if you have dandilions in California. But if you destroy the top of the weed, it comes back, and often it comes back stronger. To remove weeds you must take out the root. Our leaders talk about "freedom haters" and continue to destroy the leaves, and the roots grow and grow stonger.

Is arrogance, pomposity, self-righteousness the way to get rid of the roots? Military might?

Would that make YOU love and admire a country. a society, a culture, a way of life?
Well said. I saw what happened on the news and I was disgusted. These were people that were there to HELP the Iraqis. It didn't help that they then showed the Law and Order episode where a young woman was slain because of an honor killing, then her mother was slain for defending her. It just made me feel sick, that people take the gentle, Islamic beliefs and twist them into something horrible and depraved.

And yes, I would like to question WHY we were there in the first place, but now that we are, we can't just walk away and leave Iraq to rot. We must finish what we started - for the good of the Iraqi people (and not all of them are violent, sadistic monsters either)