Muscatine

Ladies and Gentlemen, lets get down to the basics!  As the earth started to populate, (folks moving West), people started to think differently.  (About the time of the Christ child).  As we all know, to this day, the folks in the places that we're dealing with, still believe in Alla, and totally believe that as long as they are doing what THEY believe to be "Allas" wishes, that they will go to their "Heaven".  I remember that mindset in Viet Nam.  That's EXACTLY why we NEVER won the war in Nam or Korea, AND, will NEVER win the war we're in NOW!  WE, with our might, CAN'T win a religious war (which is ALL that this one is)!  Never have, NEVER could!  These folks are TREMENDOUSLY worse and ANY Communist that we have EVER faced!  I guess, to me, that it's about time for us to take care of our own, educate our needy, put people to work, and make a Wal-Mart parking lot out of these other situations.  Our incoming President has a full course meal for 10 on his plate, and, I hope that God is with Us AND him, when he takes over.  I don't think that Bush would like to take over now.  Let me be the 1st to wish each and every one of my neighbors a very Happy and Holy Christmas and New Years.  I wish ALL of you ALL of the BEST in this New Year.  Please pray for our upcoming President.  There AIN'T enough money in this world, for me to take on a position like that.  Peace to you, my neighbors.......Tom Milder.

Tom doesn't see the glass half full.....he doesn't even see the glass.

Yet somehow we did mangage to defeat the fanatical, suicidal, kamikaze-led Japanese.   And we beat the fanatical, Hitler-crazed Germans. 

Tom doesn't see the glass half full.....he doesn't even see the glass.

They were a nation with someone who could surrender.  As our enemy belongs to no nation, fights under no state flag, with no leader who can surrender or head that can be cut off, the comparisons are really off base.  This is a very different type of war, fighting terrorism (Iraq was just a mistake, period).

That siad, I doubt we can present an alternative that includes torture that would appeal to anyone on the fence.  Jesus didn't defeat satan by becoming Satan, and we should take his lesson to heart.  If we truly believe in the morals we preach, we should live by them no matter how afraid we are.  But you can't claim to be the good guys while condoning evil.