[onedoug]

How badly did you want to do this? Enough to enlist and do it yourself, or only enough to sit at a computer and mouth off about it?

Well, I'm a Vietnam combat veteran who also wrote the Department Of The Army on 29 SEP 2001 volunteering to return to service, but was essentially told I'm too old.

How would you know what else I might do?

I said myriad other reasons and I mean it.

There. I've "mouthed off" again.

[Alberta's Child]

My hat's off to you for your service to this country.

But I am curious about one thing -- In light of the disgraceful, incompetent manner in which the civilian leadership of the United States carried out the Vietnam War, I would think a Vietnam combat veteran of all people would be more hesitant than most to see the U.S. wage a "war" like we've seen in Iraq. If anything, the U.S. action in two areas of the Middle East stand in stark contrast to each other (Afghanistan and Iraq) in terms of how to "do it right" and how to "do it wrong."