THE LIBERAL #$$%^*%^ don't understand just how important it has been for the country that we have not had a military campaign of substance in the continental united states for about 140 years.

in that period of time we have had only one "smoking hole in the ground" (911).

this is really important to a country.

first, we have not had to rebuild infrastructure to recover from that type of stuff.

second, we have not had the political/social diversion that those things cause.

third, we have not had the losses to our population associated with these happenings.

the enemies that we fight generally don't care about the "little people".

during the Korean war the americans forced the "north koreans" to the peace table by quite simply KILLING a lot of them. then they argued about the size of the table or some such thing. then the negotiations would stop for a period of weeks. during the night the "north koreans" would make mass attacks and the next morning our guys would find thousands of dead in front of thier positions. then the PRK would come back to the talks and argue about the size of the flagpoles, the color of the paint on the walls etc.

they have not signed a peace treaty yet!!!

look at the current situation.

the people that we backed, adopted a capitalistic society and government are rich, healthy, and generally happy.

the north koreans as a group have been on starvation rations so long that they are about 4" shorter than the same ethnic group/gene pool directly to the south. (no i cannot provide sites to this statement.)

In the case of Viet Nam.

look up the city of Wei. it was the Boston of Viet Nam. (a large city of colleges, hospitals, all the good stuff.) a population of approximately 3 million. the colleges were closed, (save the buildings they're important to use for the governments purposes,) reduce the population to 750,000 (we don't talk about how) and send the non essential of those left to the fields to help harvest rice.

there are many other examples of my point.

we have not had these things happen in the united states because of the lifetime work of many individuals. most of them have been military but a number have worn suites.

in this day and age our oceans are not the barrier that they once were. we now have weapons that certain individuals can wake up on a friday morning and in a fit of religeous frenzy push a button and in about thirty minutes we too can have a radioactive smoking hole in the ground.  because they are a dark ages society they will probably have stoned the people to death that could make the thing work and so the hole rather than being in the middle of new york city (where it richly deserves to be) would probably be in the middle of boondocks pennsylvania or some such other rural place.

the military will do thier damdest to stop the weapons, but you can't build a system that can "hit a bullet with another bullet" in twenty minutes or so and so they will take the blame from the liberals that handcuffed them since the carter administration.

 some of the stuff that they didn't tell the politicians about will actually work. and so we will see politicians that are still alive because the military flimflammed them holding hearings to castigate the military for keeping them alive. standard reward the guilty, punish the innocent govt. stuff.

gotta go. the guy with the 55 gallon drums of the pink liquid is here to make a delivery.  

C

Cost is a major issue for those against the Iraq war. I checked the figures to find spending to be somewhere around $6ooB.

Tell those same people that the cost to Americans of the ILLEGALS here in this country is estimated to be between $300 to $400 billion a year and watch them say 'Yeah, but . . .uh, umm, err, . . . Bush is bad!!'.

D

I don't support our liberals or their mission.

The cost issue is never an argument I hear from people, it is alway that our soldiers should not have to die.  Blah blah blah...like they have made any sacrifice to make that decision for us all.  23 months my husband has been away from home.  He was bombed regularly.  I don't care about the money; all I care about is that something happens that benefits us (I believe they have done a lot of great work keeping the enemy busy and concentrated in the mid-east instead of in the US).  You would be surprised how many people complain to families of deployed soldiers, they think we will agree with them.  He is comming home very soon and now they all want to be out and celebrate his homecomming because it is a romantic event and it will lift them out of their depraved state, but all the while they spent bad mouthing his job and it makes me angry.  I would much rather pick him up and give them the finger.  There are many people who I am glad will be there too, but quite a few older people who think WW2 was the only noble war effort and they know all....I always ask them, "Why is it more noble to rescue Jews than to rescue Kurds or Iraqis?  Did you know there were concentration camps when you went there?  Isn't rescuing the Iraqis making it safer for Israel?  Isn't rescuing them creating a buffer zone between Iran and Israel???"  You can't win.  But no, it was noble to save the lives of all of the Jewish people and it is good that all of the Iraqis go sraight to he'l because that is what will happen if we leave, we will sentence them to death.