If you removed your head from your "sixth piont of contact" you might get a clue.

I was a U.S. Soldier for 32 years and served in Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. My MOS was 96B40; an  Intelligence Analyst specializing previously in Warsaw Pact, and subsequently Middle Eastern, battlefield doctrine, weapons, tactics, equipment, and geopolitical aspects. In other words, when I speak I know what I'm talking about.

We know how tough it is for you moonbats suffering from Bush Derangemant Syndrome and your weekly trips to the therapist.  And we're well aware of the fact that you don't have the guts to stand up to Islamofascist tyrants who want to transform the whole planet into a Caliphate.

None of you would actually live under the system/s you advocate, you just troll on sites like this just to throw the usual turd in the punchbowl; the perfuntory spiel: "Bush lied" , "It's all about the oil"....blah blah blah.... ad nauseaum.

Just a few things for you to wrap your leftwing mind around:

Afghanistan is never mentioned in anti-war commentaries.  For the life of me, I can’t figure that out.  It’s probably because our success in pounding the Taliban and al Qaeda into the sand in Kandahar doesn’t make for good press.
And what about our invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan don’t you get?  Where do you think we should fight back? Hell, they’re just two of the countries I would have leveled on 12 September 2001.  We were attacked by Islamic thugs supported not only by Iraq and Afghanistan but throughout the Middle East and they are two good places to start retaliation.  No matter where we struck back, al Qaeda would be there.

Had I been in office, I would have made William Tecumseh Sherman look like a Boy Scout.  Four countries would have been carpet-bombed into asphalt parking lots: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria.  That is how you fight a war. But I was a Soldier, not a diplomat or a Lorain city commissioner.

Let me make this simple:
The invasion of Afghanistan was prompted by its use as the major operating base for al Qaeda.
The invasion of Iraq was instigated by 12 years of nose thumbing on the part of a WMD-wielding terrorist-supporting megalomaniac.  U.N. Resolution 1441 gave Hussein an ultimatum and us the specific authority to force compliance, by any necessary means.  That included military force.  As I said, I was an Intelligence Analyst and cannot discuss classified material, but there are plenty of open source publications available for your perusal. In case you didn’t know, we found a substantial amount of hidden WMD along with documents and recordings in which Saddam Hussein emphatically stated his intention to continue WMD development and deception.  

You must have been in a coma when these were discovered:
1) 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium
In a joint Energy and Defense Department operation, 1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and approximately 1000 highly radioactive sources were secured from Iraq's former nuclear research facility, packaged and then airlifted on June 23, the press statement said.
"This operation was a major achievement for the Bush Administration's goal to keep potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said in the statement. "It also puts this material out of reach for countries that may seek to develop their own nuclear weapons." Source:[http://www.usembassy-dhaka.org/state/StatePD/pre1jul08_04.html]

2) 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons agents
U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.  Source: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html]

3) 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin (a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas) "Laboratory tests showed the presence in them of cyclosarin, a very toxic gas, five times stronger than sarin and five times more durable," Bieniek told Poland's TVN24 at the force's Camp Babylon headquarters. "If these warheads, which were still usable, were used on a military base like Camp Babylon, they would have caused unforeseeable damage."   Source: [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/02/international1018EDT0516.DTL

4) Over 1,000 radioactive materials in powdered form meant for dispersal over populated areas: "Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" were also removed. The material was taken from a former nuclear research facility on 23 June, after being packaged by 20 experts from the US Energy Department's secret laboratories." Source: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3872201.stm]

5) Roadside bombs loaded with mustard and "conventional" sarin gas, assembled in binary chemical projectiles for maximum potency   Source: [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html]

And this bombshell:
“Tapes Reveal Hussein’s plans”:  An excerpt: “There also exists a quote from the dictator himself, who ordered the tapings to keep a record of his inner-sanctum discussions, that Mr. Tierney (Bill Tierney, a former Army warrant officer and Arabic speaker who was translating for the FBI tapes unearthed in Iraq after the invasion) thinks shows Saddam planned to use a proxy to attack the United States.”   “Terrorism is coming ... with the Americans," Saddam said. "With the Americans, two years ago, not a long while ago, with the English I believe, there was a campaign ... with one of them, that in the future there would be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction." Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060313-123146-7380r.htm

Geez, and to think “Chemical Ali” slaughtered thousands of Kurds with “non-existent” WMDs.

President Bush has repeatedly stated that the war against Islamofascism will not be easy; it will not come without sacrifice.  The problem is a great number of people like nice, neat, little sound bite wars.  Well, wouldn’t we all?  In reality, war is a brutal, often necessary endeavor. 

No matter how badly some people salivate over the possibility of a “civil war” in Iraq, it ain’t happening.  Most of the agitators are coming in from Syria and Iran, with the bulk of the violence taking place in specific areas around Baghdad.  The rest of the 26 million Iraqis are too busy getting on with their lives to jump on the “civil war” bandwagon.  

This is what the GWOT in Iraq and Afghanistan has accomplished:
Elimination of at least two of the ME terrorist operating bases and establishing influence and the spread of freedom right smack dab in the middle of an Islamofascist region. Iraq and Afghanistan are making great progress.  For the first time in their existence, they have an opportunity to enjoy the freedoms we take for granted; they vote, run for office, run independent businesses, and speak through a free press.  They are being prepared for the day when our mission is complete and theirs begins.  They now have a representative Parliament and a military that is being trained to provide for the defense of an independent Iraq.  You don’t hear about the good things, because, as the saying goes,” if it bleeds, it leads.” 

By the way: one of the most important campaigns of this war is being waged as we speak. It’s called “Operation Arrowhead”. The United States Army and Iraqi troops are gaining significant ground and kicking al Qaeda’s ass in places like Baqubah. I guess in your view, that’s not as important as voting to cut off our funding and sniveling about all the reasons you think we shouldn’t have picked one of the terrorist/WMD havens as a target for retaliation.

Another ploy by critics is to assign the “Vietnam” mantra to every war it disagrees with.  No matter how badly they want it to be another “Vietnam” it isn’t happening, and their historical amnesia kicks in every time this war is debated.

Here’s an easy scenario:
In spite of ominous indicators and turmoil that was contained on someone else’s turf, we remained complacent.
An enemy sends planes to bomb and crash into U.S. territory. The attack kills roughly 3000 Americans.
War is declared and retaliation begins against the perpetrators and their allies.
Sound familiar?
It happened 7 December 1941.
There’s your comparison.
It took almost 300,000 dead and over 600,000 wounded American troops to win a four year war in Europe, the Pacific, Africa, and parts of Asia. Can you imagine a U.S. politician, journalist, or teacher declaring that “it was unwinnable”, and voting for a fund cut-off?

You didn’t expect the bad guys to be very happy at the fact that we brought the war they started, back to them, did you? Of course they’re going to be pissed. Of course they’re going to fight back, not just with weapons but through media exploitation. 9/11 was the Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century and all the critics are capable of is spouting nonsense and being al Qaeda apologists.
In case you still don’t get it, they want to kill us.  They made that pretty clear on 11 September 2001.
If you don’t understand that, maybe they didn’t hit close enough to your own back yard.

Okay, sweetpea, you can go back to playing with Rosie Palm and her five sisters....

In truth, members of the military are generally better educated than the average civilian. Certainly the average grunt is sharper and has many more useful skills than Ted Rall. And it goes up and down the chain of command. I suppose he's not aware that Gen Petraeus, for instance, is a West Point graduate and holds a PhD from Princeton.

I really get tired of liberal stereotypes, falsehoods, misconceptions, general ignorance and stupidity, and their downright mean-spiritedness.

pintrolla

check Genesis pintrolla your assertion is patently false

"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."     Einstein