God Bless Us All. I am very proud of my American Troops and I am believe in what they are doing. Keep up the great work and come home soon.

Being from the generation of the Vietnam era hitting the brick wall of 50, my services have been declined down by the Army, Marines, Air Force reservists and Guard; specifiying a section Code for automatic disqualification for enlistment due to age and/or health reasons. Evidently there is no room for old people to be employed in the war effort in the middle east. Emails sent to my Senators, Represenatives and the even the President have all gone unanswered; as well as my application with KBR-Haliburn to work under a civilian capacity. I suspect for health reasons. My son is not yet a teenager, and I as his parent have no desire to see him sent off to a war in a draft as was the case in 'Nam - with his entire life to live ahead of him. Let's get this thing done and over with right now. The government has tactical field nuclear weapons which were stationed in Europe RIGHT? What is with this door to door, hand to hand combat? "Rules of Engagement" Those guys don't HAVE rules - except for to kill any allied armed military prescene - in as a great of quantity as possible before being killed. They are using a war of attrition - same as in 'Nam. If it takes my 50 year old aged presence, I'd rather gather up my blood pressure and arthtitus pills (nothing taken for the maligant cancer I went through back in 2002), and go over there to help bring this situation to a closure - instead of my son. Vietnam and it's entire scenario still rings in my ears; the resemblance between these two "conflicts" are remarkably identical. You would figure that the USA government could use a person trained 30 years in the transportation industry and 23 years in the computer I.T. industry; specializing in Information Security on networks. aka:InfoSec. No, they only have age riders for the medical field - doctors and nurses up to 47, to keep these young kids alive after an engagement. My first question pertaining to Iraq and Afghanistan is how in the hell is all this orandinance being obtained and used againt our guys, if the military conducted sweeps and DESTROYED all insurgency sources of ammo stores? Again, the 'Nam and VC ordeal pops up as a reminder. I feel for those guys/gals over there, as in Vietnam, they cannot fire upon suspected individuals for fear of being Court Martialed for killing "fiendlies". WHAT FRIENDLIES? They all dress the same, except the "masks come on" upon an event, then come off just as quickly. Just like the Vietnam situation, with the exception of the mask part. Charlie didn't even bother with that. Do we have special forces units operating in other middle eastern countries as well (same as Laos and Cambodia), and will the war effort spread and expand for another 10-15 years, before the USA pulls out? It's time to take off the gloves, remove the limited use of miltary force (such as thos wonderously fastastic and horrendously expensive "intelligent" weapons), and handle this thing in the good old American way back in WWII. Collateral damage - sure it happens, but who said war was a fun and happy place to go to work? Our buddies with the masks over there have no problem with using it. Its time to pull back our guys to a safe distance and let the heavy rounds detonate. WHY the need for house to house, room to room, hand to hand combat? The Russians learned this the hard way back in 1945 in Berlin, because they had no other way of contending with their problem and goals. This is a very expensive way in terms of manpower to achieve military objectives. I see no closure in this; only a prolonged solution expanding over into another generation of American citizens who are right now happily going to school and playing with their friends. What ever happened to the great American military might that the world respected and took notice of? It's all sitting in stockpiles in various strategic locatin within the U.S, doing our people in the middle east absolutely NO GOOD whatsoever. Our government is doing a fantastic job of applying Martial Law against U.S citizens here in the 'states during natural disasters and civil unrest; why can't they apply the identical success in the middle east? Fear of hurting the feelings of some extremist groups? I make no apologies for the polictically incorrect essay provided above. I call it as I see it.

I am the daughter of a WWII Veteran who was a POW for 2 years in a Japanese prison camp and while I dont necessarily(sp?) agree with the war I do thank the brave men and women of every war we have been involved in for without them the rest of us wouldnt be able to have the freedoms we have

This war is all about oil, the oil companies bribed Bush to invade Iraq for the oil.

Bush has his own oil company, so to speak. but this war isnt about oil, We are paying for it in more ways than one. we do get some oil from them. but we refine it and give it back to them at a fraction of the cost. which in turn America is footing the bill at the pump. We were getting oil from them before the war at a much lower cost than now. If we wanted to steal it, wouldnt it cost less? If we wanted to take it, dont you think it would be justified by fighting their war for them? they should give us oil for services rendered. however, we are still paying for it!

Sorry, but I forgot to mention we have oil in alaska, and the lower 48 states. and Iraq isnt the only country suppying the world with oil. even china produces crude. Iraq could loose all its resorces and only improve the american economy.

I think Usa bring there just death and feeling of revenge freedom is a just a fairy tale i think Usa make their believe them that they are bringing freedom but that is just a lie.I would like to ask you if it is not about oil there is a lot of place without freedom why don't you give them freedom?Because is a dictator obey Usa rules he is agood person if not he is a bad person and he must be elaminated such like Saddam.I dont like him also but in the past he has got good relations with Usa and Usa didnt do anything but he changed his situation and all these happened.

you kill us and say peace for world???? you big liar we will revenge so soon

For hero84_egypt, this is why we are over there now. unfortunately, a great part of this has been caused by people who think like you. what our current president has done has been a bold movement to eliminate or neutrolize this kind of thinking, because this kind of thinking has hurt US and and continue to hurt US. for years the US has put up with terrorist attacks. US had been mild in it's response. for example, the incident in the 1980's in iran. US gave into terrorist's demands and things had been steadily getting worse since then. The USS Cole, the bombing of our embassies. though i do like war, and do not agree with everything president Bush has done, i do have to give him this, he has been the boldest president the US has had in a long time. sometimes do the right thing or choosing the lesser of two evils is not always popular with everyone. Sep 11 was painfull, and was the final draw. you see the war, the negative actions the US has taken, have you thought of all of the humanitarian help the US has given, or is giving. what do you want from US? do you expect US to just sit around let a bunch of fundamentalist push US around? we also have the right to defend our freedom and our interests. what did ever do we do to osama and his cronies? we actually help these guys get rid of the russians and now they turn in US. did they get bored after fighting the russians. if we all would respect each others beliefs and did not try to forcefully try to convert each other into adopting ones beliefs, we would have wars such as this one. by having this revengeful attitude, you are intensifying the situation.

THINKING FOR PEOPLE NEED 2 B OPEN, BEYOND THE BOUNDARY OF COUNTRY BOUNDRY,RELIGION, RACE...............THEN ONLY THE HATERATE WOULD GO. & PEOPLE WOULD B ABLE TO THINK TO WARDS THE IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND.