QUOTE(Solve et Coagula @ Feb 26 2006, 10:31 AM)
You know Solve, I appreciate your European perspective, especially as a Swiss. I also appreciate the last several lines of this video- challenging Bush's "bring it on" statement. Very powerful.
But propaganda is still propaganda, and this certainly qualifies. There are no pictures of these Iraqi Patriots blowing up the mosques of their opposition, or unloading busloads of passengers and shooting them, execution style. Do you really believe that, if our soldiers were to lay down their arms, they would not be herded into a ditch somewhere and shot?
Yesterday my wife attended the funeral of a young Marine killed by an IED. His mother is one of my wife's best friends. It has been hard for me over the last week to not be affected by her depression and sorrow. I have also been affected by Michael Probst's death: seeing his name on the memorium scroll on
This Week last Sunday was difficult, to say the least. That his life was lost because of George Bush's vanity does not mean his life was lost in vain.
And just because we as a nation are there for all the wrong reasons does not mitigate the horrors this 'insurgency' has imposed upon the people of Iraq. If I were not an American, I would say 'a pox on both their houses," but I can't say that, can I, because this is my house.