I'm not looking to haggle - particularly over something you didn't say, and particularly don't feel qualified to make any comment on military tactics - although I have been in the situation of being a civilian being shot at (was on Cyprus when the Turkish army invaded). I'm pretty sure those were shots intended to make me keep my head down. If they'd dropped leaflets, I'd have been gone - but so would their element of surprise. And no, I don't want to get into whether it was an invasion or a freeing of downtrodden ethnic Turkic Cyprians.
I do feel somewhat qualified to make comments on the politics of getting involved in an unnecessary war. Particularly one for which we voters were offered one lame justification after another until it finally became "support our troops". I do support our troops - I don't want them unnecessarily put in harm's way - and if we do have to do that, I want that to be only if there was no other way.
It's quite possible that, now that we're there, the way to the least number of casualties, both US and Iraqi, is an aggressive offense.
Finally, to get back onto the "Bush or Kerry" topic, there was one quote (in this thread?) that at least one person voted for Bush because he "was doing God's work". That post got me to thinking - I think a lot of people did vote for Bush at least partially for that reason.
So... when in history did lots of people feel that sending troops to the middle east was "doing God's work"?
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