[pt17]

It doesn't matter. Bush isn't going to to anything to Iran OR Syria in an "election year".

Consider the possibility that GWB doesn't have the (CIA type of) intelligence to do anything to either country right now, regardless of any election. Also, having come up short with no WMD, he isn't going to get much support for doing anything overtly. I think the real problem is the Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs. They, and not their countries, need to be visited in the middle of the night for some frank discussions.

[Fledermaus]

If by "frank discussions" you mean bullets in the backs of their heads, I agree.

And I don't give a crap about the CIA or intelligence. They need to die, period.

[endthematrix]

"I think the real problem is the Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs."

Look at you TV. Those mobs hanging corpses and rushing serviceman aren't Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs.

[jocon307]

"[T]he Mullahs, Imams and Ayatollahs....need to be visited in the middle of the night for some frank discussions."

Yes, they most definately do. It's not clear to me why this hasn't happened already.

What is clear to me is that we failed to kill enough Iraqis during the war itself. We need to remember that in future conflicts. All the guys who ran away have lived to fight another day, and that is not a good thing.