Originally Posted by Paul H

I like how 99% of the people out there bitching about the casualty rate in Iraq haven't ever been in the military, let alone served in Iraq. It's also interesting that people take it upon themselves to determine whether or not those 4000 soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors "died in vain." None of them died for some abstract "great cause." They died for their comrades. You don't know them, and you obviously don't understand what it means to serve. Shut the fuck up.

Whether starting the war was justified or not really doesn't matter now. You want it to end? Fine. I'm not going to argue with that, and I don't think it's necessarily unreasonable, but don't over-simplify the huge task that it is to do so. You don't understand anything that CNN hasn't taken the time to explain to you all "dora the explorer" style. Shut the fuck up.

Oh, and all the smelly hippies that took time out of their busy frizbee schedule to hop on the computer at the university library- go get a job and pay taxes before stroking your Barrack Oboner about the cost of the war.