RJ... Your comments are the ramblings of an indoctrinated idiot and really do not warrant much of a response. However I would like to know how much time you have spent in N. Korea? If it was possible for all their citizens to leave and move to the US or S. Korea they would do it in a heartbeat, despite the fact that they get absolutely no news at all from the outside world. It beats boiling grass to stay alive.
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Chia... I am sure you are a nice guy but you have never come across as any type of history buff. You are not even very knowledgeable on current events, politics or geopolitics. I think you are a student and that may be part of your problem. Never believe ANYTHING any college professor tells you in ANY liberal arts course without verification from at least 2 or 3 other outside sources. Just give them the answers they want in order to pass the tests and forget about them.

I do however enjoy reading your posts. Even when it is a blatant suck up.
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Tats... What's the deal with bringing all our soldiers home? It was a war. It still is. Since when do all the soldiers come home as soon as a war was over? How long is it over now? A little over a 100 days. Don't tell me you are part of the spoiled "instant gratification" culture that is all too prevalent in this country. We will be in Iraq for several years. Any one with even an iota of reality or an ounce of sense knew this from the get go. The "instant gratification" media is feeding the public nothing but lies and only portrays the negative aspects of the whole thing. They can't wait to start calling Iraq a quagmire. Some have already. They are working from an anti-Bush agenda pure and simple. It is sad that you as a supposed former member of the service does not see this.
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You know what most of the problem is with Iraq and our military? We simply do not have enough men in the army. The US has become too reliant on calling up reserves everytime we need forces anywhere in the world. After the fall of the U.S.S.R. all the liberal politicians (Dems and Repubs) couldn't wait to scale down the military and allocate D.O.D. funding to domestic social programs. We really don't have many fulltime sodiers anymore. No where near the amount we need for a country this size and the committments the civilian leadership gets us involved in. The prick from Arkansas that spent 8 years in the White House did a good job of increasing military committments all the while scaling down our ability to actually fight a long and protracted war. He totally killed our long held policy of maintaining the ability to fight two major confilcts on two different fronts.

For an operation like Iraq, we should have a large enough full time force to maintain reasonable deployment committments and rotation schedules with fresh troops. But we don't and they should be working on fixing this problem.

I think it sucks that we have to rely on so many reserve units. It's a shame. Bush inherited this situation but it is also true that he could be doing more to change it. This notion of reshaping the military and relying on small rapid deployment forces is ridiculous. Especially when we have a rapidly emerging superpower nation like China who is ramping up and preparing for war with every passing day.

I am also very curious to why the very same people who complain about Iraq never complain that we have been in Bosnia for 10 years and Kosovo for over 5 years. Is it because they were politically correct wars? Is it because the deployment orders came from a Democratic administration? Is it because the incompetant UN is involved? Is it because some people think US forces should only be used for peacekeeping and not offensively? Both places are shit and not much has been done in all these years.

Bush has done a lot of shit wrong. Not suprising for a guy who often goes out of his way to appease the liberals, often with our money. But he was dead right about Iraq and his treatment of the UN.

For those who complain about not finding Bin Laden... what the fuck do you expect us to do? Attack Pakistan because he is being protected by warlords. I've never even heard any of these people utter one criticism of these backward societies that maintain a warlord culture.

The decision to attack Iraq was dead on right. We should have done it years ago. The truth is we had a former president who did not want to deal with any type of risky confrontations and just pushed off problems knowing the next guy to sit in the Oval Office, whomever it was, would have to deal with these problems. North Korea is a prime example of this. Yet I don't hear any of the Iraq complainers harping on this issue.

I also hear a lot of people bitch and moan that other countries hate us because of our policies. What are these policies you people speak of? Let's hear it......