You should be proud of your service.  But whether you found any terrorists or not, they were and are there (only there are far fewer of them now - http://terroristdeathwatch.com/).

Sure, things could have been done better, but this is the first time in the history of the world that this type of war on terrorism (rather than between sovereign nations) has been attempted.

And plenty of progress is being made: http://www.powerlineblog.com/

Thank you for your service.  You have made the country safer whether you know it or not.

I served a year in Baghdad and did not find any terrorists. There were plenty of locals who took up arms against the US.

So, you only faced armed combatants who openly fired upon you?  I find that hard to believe.

While I was in Iraq the second time, most of the energies of the bad guys were focused on attacking OTHER Iraqi's in an effort to brook civil war and make our position in coutry untenable.  It never actually got that far, but mobs of folks were killed by terrorists.  You might be correct that most were Iraqi Terrorists, but driving a carbomb into a crowded market is terrorism non-the less.

Many of us in the military are tired of being in Iraq

Yes, after my first tour in Sudi Arabia/Kuwait/Iraq, I was eager to return home.

Afte My second tour I was liewise eager to come home.

If asked again, I will go.  Am I tired?  Not as tired as I will be if evil triumphs ala Saigon 1975.

Is it WMD's or terrorists that brought us to Iraq?

Actually, it was the sixteen seperate rationale presented to both Joint Session of Congress and the UN that led us into Iraq.  You should read them sometime.

The assumption that "It is only one thing" is narrow-minded.

We should have sent a massive force into Afghanistan in 2001 and then be done with it.

By the time "The massive force" as you put it would have been incountry, the AQ and Tali's were already cowering in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

I keep hearing people say that we should have had a mechanized Infantry/armored Division in country from the start.  And ya gotta ask "How would we get them there."  How would we resupply?

Hell, I am pretty sure we could not have even moved the entire 82nd Airborne into country and kept it resupplied by air adequately.  Transportation assets for such just do not exist anymore.

In the end it turned out that they were not needed as a handful of SF ODA took the country away from the Tali/AQ by themselves.

I thought that bin Laden was in Pakistan.

Could be. 

Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabi have more terrorists than Iraq.

But Iraq is more conducive to providing the necessary start point for our use of democracy as a weapon against Islamo fascism.  (yes, look it up in the Joint Session of Congress/UN speeches.  Its in there.)

A successful effort in Iraq will mean we will NOT have to do similar missions into Saudi Arabia, Lebanon (Sort of happening there now until Hezzies freaked) and Syria.

LOL, completely forgot she was the one. What a hoot.

Confirm - never saw a Civilian journo while in theater.  (Did see some Uniformed types.)