To me, the worst enemy is one who has nothing left to lose but his honor

[BigBearJohn]

Maureen Dowd painted a very poignant picture with her words about Iraq:

"It looks like a lot of kids being blown to smithereens by an invisible enemy."

To me, it's tantamount to sending thousands of our dear, innocent lambs to the slaughter.

I mean, it's not as if we can send the troops to conquer an encampment...
something tangible that we can say we won.
It's more like trying to get rid of cockroaches in an apartment. You
spray one apartment and they only scatter to the apartment next door.
then next week they're back again in droves.

It's as if we send our children there to stand around defenseless, just waiting to be picked off.

Then, to pour salt on an open wound, when the people we are tring to defend start
attacking us, we hear the insane ramblings of an idiot urging the American people
to "stay the course!"

It kind of reminds of the British back in the 1700's... marching in
formation in bright red uniforms, being routinely picked off by snipers
hanging from the trees and behind bushes. "Stay the course," eh?

I don't know what's worse, the fact that so many thousands had their lives
sacrificed for no good reason, or the fact that we, as a nation, have allowed it to continue for so long...

Would somebody please wake me up and tell me this is all one
big nightmare. This really can't be happening in America.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. I would say the most difficult to defeat and most deadly for sure

As with Vietnam, and the Revolutionary War to name just two.

[wli]

2. sorry, the nightmare is very real n/t

[BigBearJohn]

3. the understatement of the century

[BigBearJohn]

4. .