I am so hoping they don't decide to waste their time with another "talk" they need to defeat and defeat the insurgents in that city soundly, and our Marines can do it.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that was made, was stopping the siege of the city last Spring, they should have taken care of the job then. This time there needs to be a clear defeat of the insurgents and a victory for the marines.

GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN WARRIOR

BY HIS SWORD BE STEADFAST

HIS BLOW DECISIVE

- j. ramey 9/12/2001

I pray safety and victory for our troops. I pray they have the discernment and wisdom to fight effectively and swiftly, so that the guilty pay to the utmost, and the innocent (if there are any) are spared.

Mr. President, I know there are international concerns and issues, but let our troops go in and do their job to the fullest extent.

Time to take care of these terrorist [unprintable].

Oh my. My thoughts, my heart, my prayers to Dave and all US service men and women in Iraq.

Thanks, Bill, for the link.

Keeping our boys in my thoughts. Liberators of millions, defenders of freedom.

The seige couldn't continue in the Spring. Moveon.org, Soros, Deaniacs, Kerry, Edwards, CBS, CNN, Krugman, NYT, Time, Newsweek, WaPo, AP, Reuters...where should I stop? Germany? France? Kofi? The BBC? LeMonde? How about the dozens of expert witnesses against President Bush? Former low level CIA factotums, emasculated academics, doddering ex-Generals rolled out of mothballs, pea-brained Clinton era ambassadors--all trotted out on television networks nightly to lecture the President?

The unrelenting antiwar activists in the MSM and the web, plus the suddenly wobbly, weak-kneed, wussy (former) warbloggers (Sullivan, Layne, Welch, et al) daily pounding the President and our military (remember Abu Ghraib?) made it absolutely impossible for our President to prosecute both the war and make even the most modest effort at reelection. The latter was reduced to simply defending himself--attempting to somehow survive the onslaught of negativity. The former was therefore degraded to a hands-off maneuver, pulling back and managing the troop casualties and morale, while simultaneously trying to keep any collateral damage (civilians) off the media radar.

We can blame the Deaniacs, Trippi and moveon.org for the incredibly depressing anti-war fervor...if they hadn't been so successful at galvanizing their allies in the MSM, patriotism wouldn't have become such a dirty word. They got the ball rolling, Kerry just picked up what he thought was a winning meme and ran with it. By Spring, you would have thought the US had deposed Saint Saddam, the most benevolent and enlightened ruler since Charlemagne.

The unforgivable, opportunistic treachery of Kerry and his media facilitators, especially the NYT and CBS, continued unabated until the election. Now it's payback time...GW is reelected, has a mandate and doesn't give a damn what anyone on the hostile left thinks, reports or invents about America destroying Falujah, Al Sadr and Zarqawi. If I were a CBS or BBC reporter, I'd make damn sure that I always stayed far behind the front lines...friendly fire is a bitch.

Thank you for this post. And may God guide, encourage, protect, and lead our troops. How anyone can think that the war in Araq doesn't have anything to do with terrorism is beyond me.

John A -

You had me until ...

If I were a CBS or BBC reporter, I'd make damn sure that I always stayed far behind the front lines...friendly fire is a bitch.

Do you realize how that sounds? C'mon, man. That's out of line.

May God Almighty and his Son
Strengthen their spirit
Lead them to Victory
Ward them from harm
And return them safely to their families

Amen.

They should have razed Fallujah a year ago.

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
- Thomas Paine

"I hope we win." -Fezzik, The Princess Bride

:)

I believe Benjamin Franklin said something to the effect of "Those who give up freedom for security will end up with neither." I think that our country's overreaction to the perceived threat that terrorists pose is the biggest help we could have given them. Sending a conventional force after guerrilla forces is a waste of time and counterproductive. If we really want to defeat terrorists, creating generations of them in Iraq is probably not the best way to accomplish this. We need to be smarter than them, not more violent.