[Porsche-O-Phile]

The war in Iraq had NOTHING whatsoever to do with the so-called "war on terror".

We should have stuck to Afghanistan and isolated actions where necessary to root out and destroy terror cells.

The war in I-wreck is a mistake, will always be a mistake and will always be viewed as a mistake in the court of historical opinion.

We've wasted our chance and opportunity to fight a major campaign if we need to. If Al Qaeda found sanctuary in Jordan or Qatar or Iran tomorrow, we'd be unable to mount the same response to "the nations that harbor them" that we did to Afghanistan. We don't have the resources for it. We don't have the stomach for it and we DEFINITELY don't have the money for it. When Bush said, "we will make no distinction between terrorist organizations and the nations who harbor them", that was actually the correct call. Bush got that one right. Afghanistan was the right response. Iraq was completely and totally unrelated and, much as the warmongers and historical revisionists want, there IS NOT and WAS NEVER a link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Our military is strong, yes - but is also stretched pretty thin, beaten down, tired and certainly out of money. We are in debt up to our arses because of this stupid war, and there is no benefit from it - tangible or intangible, that will adequately pay back the taxpayers of the U.S. for their huge investment, in terms of money and their sons'/daughters' lives.

Also, one has to ask the question - if the role of the military is to PROTECT and DEFEND the United States, why are we off screwing around invading sovereign countries while millions of invaders (each one a potential terrorist) stroll across our borders daily, unchecked. The biggest foreign threats to our country right now are not bombs or guns or even terrorists, it's economic sabotage. OBL is beating us, and our ham-fisted actions are letting the Mexicans and Chinese do it for him - unintentionally perhaps, but they're slowly bringing the U.S. economy to its knees nonetheless.

We should pull the hell out of Iraq, leave it to whatever fate it will inevitably find anyway, re-task our military to DEFENDING this country against foreign invaders and focus on ways to economically shore up ourselves against the constant attacks undermining it. Standing on an aircraft carrier puffing one's chest up under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished" (before some 3,000 more service personnel die) while the domestic situation continues circling the drain does little to inspire me or to assure me that my government "gets it". They don't. And for one, I'm getting awfully sick of funding their ineptitude and stupidity.