Important Announcement

[Avian]

We all support our troops. With everything we have. Don't question our patriotism - although yours and the like minded could stand some heavy scrutiny.

In fact, we support our troops so much more than you have, since we wanted them all home alive, not in caskets, killed in some trumped-up war. I suppose some people are fine with killing america's best and brightest for ficticious reasons. I'd rather have them around to defend America against her enemies.

It's refreshing to see such a naive opinion about world politics expressed, but don't confuse your opinion with a well-reasoned one.

Did any of us think that America, with a 400 billion dollar military budget, was ever NOT going to win a war with Iraq and its 4 billion dollar military budget? Things are unfolding, unfortunately, EXACTLY as most of the world thought it would. On a path to even more homeland insecurity, death and destruction. The thousands of dead Iraqi men, women and children were missing in today's ruckus - as well as almost all of Baghdad's 5 million inhabitants.

Are we happy Saddam is gone? Of course. Could he have been disarmed peacefully? Of course. Are we in more danger than we ever have been for invading a key Islamic state, and by creating worldwide anti-american sentiment? Well, of course!


Avian