[Alberta's Child]

We are not fighting in Iraq for the Iraqis, we are fighting for our freedom and our way of life and those of our children, grandchildren, and for many generations to come.

If this were true, then anything short of unleashing hell on every major city in Iraq would amount to a dereliction of duty on the part of this country's civilian and military leadership.

The U.S. has spent the last 15-20 years engaging in a massive empire-building effort in several places around the globe. This just happens to be the one part of the world where many people are willing to do crazy things to resist us.

[jpl]

If this were true, then anything short of unleashing hell on every major city in Iraq would amount to a dereliction of duty on the part of this country's civilian and military leadership.

Instead, our civilian leadership court-martials U.S. soldiers for offenses such as firing too many bullets at the enemy.

At times, it appears to me as though our government cares more about the Iraqis than it does about our own troops that we're sending over there.