>Of course, there's roughly 1,200 who will not be returning. Wonder how many of them, if they could speak from the grave, would say that things are going well. Perhaps you should ask some of their surviving family members their thoughts that no WMD have been found in the year and a half since the "hostilities" ended. That is what Bush said on that boat, isn't it.

Speaking as one of five brothers that served in the U.S. Armed Services thru the period beginning with WWII and ending with Vietnam, I can say, if any of us would have been killed, the remaining would have been sad, but proud that they died honorably, protecting the freedon of the free and helping to free others of tyranical rulers. Although I'm to old to be recalled now, I would gladly serve in Iraq if called upon. A man that sets a very good example of this is K.C. Chiefs running back, Priest Holmes, stepfather....I believe he's 58, and presently serving in Iraq.

We have been attacked by terriorists for decades. It's past time to put a stop to it.

1979 - Tehran
1983 - US Embassy in Beirut; Marine barracks in Beirut; US Embassy in Kuwait
1985 - Madrid; Rhein-Main AB, Germany; Achille Lauro
1986 - TWA Flight 840
1988 - Pan Am Flight 103
1993 - World Trade Center
1995 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1996 - Khobar Towers

On and on...US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the USS Cole.....and 9/11. Someone had to stand up and confront the bad guys, and one of them is/was Sadaam.