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Marvelous. You can be proud.

Now remember one of the things you were fighting for -- our First Amendment right to freely speak and petition the government.

I, too, heartily supported the war. But I got off the bus when I realized that (a) the Iraqis haven't demonstrated the commitment to control their own country, (b) the Iraqis (Kurds excepted) generally hate our guts and will despise us after we're gone, (c) the Iraqi army units are rife with corruption from top to bottom and therefore lack the basic integrity to establish a just and secure society, and (d) when our troops are being made to take off their boots before entering mosques to find snipers within -- instead of blowing the freakin' place sky high --we lack the ruthlessness to win this war.

If we are going to fight the war, then let's fight it to win for heaven's sake. If that means leveling entire blocks of Baghdad and raining holy hell on the insurgents, then so be it. If it means destroying the Iranian Navy in a single day as a warning against misbehavior in Iraq and elsewhere, then so be it. But please count me out of this hearts-and-minds BS that worked so "wonderfully" in 'Nam.