Yeah, I've been pretty despondent for a while over the whole thing. I really believe what we're doing over there is good for those people, the region and for the world in general.

READ THE REST OF MY RESPONSE BELOW THE FOLD --> The problem has been cowardice and political infighting all along. The solidarity mythologized after 9-11-01 was all too temporary; within days, the same voices that are currently driving the Democrat party over a cliff were the first ones calling for our defeat back then.

Its just sad. Many of us have heard that Army Ranger caller on the Neal Boortz show, who summed it up perfectly. Once the first body bag came home, we were obligated to finish the job. And I'm still all for finishing the job and then continuing into other terrorist havens to do the same thing.

The political and 'real-world' reality, however, is that politicians will never stand up and give this kind of war the proper vigorous execution we all know it really requires. And that is a damn shame - for the precious US Troops, the Iraqi people, and (for real) basic human rights and dignity for the world.

The West, and our country in particular, has had one massive, collective taking-of-the-eye-off-the-ball. I've been following the ups and downs all along, but I can't sat the same for most people I know. They only know what they see on CNN. It's that pathetic.

So I'm all for vigorous prosecution of the war. I'm dying for a military victory. I'm not tired of defending and point out the goods of what we're doing. But many others are wearing down, while many others still are cowards of the lowest order. And it is those cowards appealing to people's most base and pathetic emotions of helplessness and despair that are having the greatest emotional resonance among the general population (for now). Its pathetic, I know, but that's what it appears we've got. Splitters. They'll have and continue to have the blood of many a good and decent person on their hands.

I'm holding out, praying, and hoping for victory. It just seems some days that there are too many parties that don't want it to happen. And that is the most bizzare aspect of everything we've seen in Iraq since 2003.

So here's hoping.

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