Operation Iraqi Freedom: Just the facts, please By Mark M. Alexander Mar 24, 2006 "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." -- James Madison Last Friday, the Bush administration released its second National Security Strategy, an outline of U.S. national interests and what we will do to secure them. The NSS serves as the primary guidance for the conduct of all U.S. government agencies in regard to those interests. Topping the list of critical national interests...