[jamminjames]

FYI - My son is in the Army deployed in Korea at present. Before that he was in southern Iraq for almost a year. During that year, his wife, also in the Army, was serving in Baghdad. She is home now raising my granddaughter. One of my other sons is a Marine about to be deployed to places unknown yet.
None of them had to enlist - they wanted to because they believe in what we stand for. I wanted to discourage them but held back - I just tried to give them all the information I could so they could make their own decisions.
I have always been in constant contact with them through the internet no less than once a week. They tell me what the real world is like over there with no media bias - and I know that they would very much disagree with you! It's a joke to most of the troops when they see some of the stuff that people are saying back home. And it's also dis-heartening.
Terrorist were and are there. Links to 9/11 been proven. You don't know the 'total' story if you think that's a lie. Saddam was a brutal dictator who murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. We got rid of a brutal dictator and are helping to set up a freedom-based government. Have we hit speed-bumps along the way? Of course! Did Bush do it perfectly? Of course not! Do you think you could have done it better?? I doubt it. How's Kerry even going to finish the job with his history of cutting military spending? Better yet, if Kerry was in office when 9/11 occurred, what would he have done? Spent 1 to 2 years convincing the UN to fall in line while two or three more attacks occurred on our soil? It's been proven that more attacks were planned - but were postponed when we invaded Afghanistan. And postponed further when we 'invaded' Iraq. If nothing else I'll go with postponement rather than more attacks.
Did we create more terrorist - probably yes. If we did nothing more terrorist would have been created anyway - "see, the US did nothing after 9/11; so come join in our jihad and make it into heaven" or some other BS...
Lastly, it will surprise you that I do care about people in other countries. I figure if I have certain feelings about my great-uncle being mistakenly murdered by English commandoes in Northern Ireland, then I should apply those feelings about all oppressed people. I do things for foreign relief – but that’s my own personal business. Do you really think Kerry gives a rats-a$$ about those people? I don't.
Yes, Bush et-all made some mistakes along the way. But not to the extreme you say with the twists you say. "Let ye without sin cast the first stone" (It's a Bible thing)

So you go ahead and do your little ranting. At least I feel better getting some of this off my chest. Sometimes it really irks me when people say things without hearing the truth first-hand.

So go ahead and say what you will - believe M. Moore with his edited interviews of a couple of military personnel. Keep on believing that those few people speak for all of them...

I've had enough of this. I guess I better start saving up for a back-yard bomb shelter - just in case Kerry does get elected.

Have a nice day.