Good map! My oldest son served in the first Gulf War and was mostly in Qatar. The last time I talked to him, he was confused as to why we are taking so many prisoners. Although he was not in a major combat area, he said, "If they're the enemy, just shoot them so we don't have to watch all these charges of prisoner abuse".
It's so easy for Kerry and all the other 'Monday morning quarterbacks' to criticize how the military operations are being handled. And so many Democrats that can connect dots to imagine Bush caused or could have prevented the 911 attacks CAN'T seem to connect the dots between Al Qaeda- Saddam Hussein and the oil-for-food scam.
Still, one of the MSM tv channels showed a survey of voters that indicated 48% of those voting for Kerry are voting for him because he's not Bush; while only 16% of Bush voters are voting for him because he's not Kerry.
Kerry has ideas? It seems he has different promises depending on who the audience is. Bush is running for president, while Kerry seems to be running for Mr. Universe.
***....Compassion ceases if there is nothing but compassion, and revulsion turns to insensitivity. Our “soft pity,” as Stefan Zweig calls it, is stimulated, because guilt is a convenient substitute for action where action is impossible. Without the power to do anything, sensitivity becomes our main aim, the aim is not so much to do anything, as to be judged. Salvation lies in the verdict that declares us to be wrong....salvation consists not only in a futile exchange of influences, but in the recognition of the superiority of foreign thought, in the study of their doctrines, and in conversion to their dogma. We must take on our former slaves as our models. . . . It is the duty and in the interest of the West to be made prisoner by its own barbarians. ***Source