Bush noted in his 2003 pre-war speech, 4 reasons for going to war. If you don’t know what they are, YOU ARE IGNORANT. You should at least educate yourself, like read his speech, about why we went into war.

But even if all 4 reasons were wrong, that’s a sunk cost mistake. Yes, those killed in the past don’t justify more deaths. What justifies more deaths, or more dollars, is the alternative.

Why don’t you think of the alternative? Why don’t you write something like:
“I support ending the (US part) of the Iraq war — even if it means all our Iraqi allies are murdered, even if it means genocide of most Sunni Arabs in Iraq, even it means new Killing Fields”.

Is this really what you favor? In Vietnam history, it really WAS what the anti-war Left favored — but they were ignorant or dishonest about their “anything is better” alternative.

I’d rather have a whole battalion of Iraq veterans in my house than one snarky yokel like you. Interestingly enough, this weekend, while in our local theater, when the National Guard promo trailer came on, there was actually scattered applause…from young people. That’s why I have faith that we will survive in spite of people like you.

Two years ago President Bush visited Moscow to take part in celebration of 60th anniversary of Allies victory in WWII. He gave a reception in US embassy and invited Russian veterans of this war. It happenned so that one of the invited was my father, in days of war leutenant, commander of mortar battery at Karelia front line. I have a foto of this event: my father and Bush shake hands, at background of Russian and American flags. A 9 May this year, at Victory Day celebration, my wife, I, our sons and daughters visited him in his near-Moscow country house, and he, dressed in his war uniform, with decorations, described us his long war biography. He was very lucky to return from this unbelievable slaugher, even unwounded. From his age cohort, born in 1924, only 3% survived the war. 97% perished; the whole nubmer of killed was 27 000 000. (Compare with 2 mln Germans killed at Russian front.) He also wore on his uniform a memorial medal given to him by Bush.

The “lefties” aren’t exactly on board for America’s latest questionable war.

And while some Americans are getting very wealthy from it, I don’t think the people actually fighting this war are making much.

David Weber has covered almost all the versions of boondogle wars that is possible in his genre, I have no need of additional theorists theorizing about things they cannot get right if only because they cannot synch it with reality.

I have faith that one day they’ll realize their sacrifice was only made for people who wouldn’t let them in their houses, though.

At least we have faith in something. I have faith that you might someday actually realize the sacrifice that has been made on your behalf by people you scorn, vilify and don’t really know. Now that’s faith. Same for you, TMNT.