At least Jacob is finaly being honest. He really doesn’t support the troops.

This is the new line from the left, folks. Get ready for more of it.

More to the point though, to people like jacob, unless our troops do everything perfectly all of the time, the entire effort is illigitmate. The terrorist insurgents, however, are allowed to murder and pillage at will with nary a word of criticism. If one police officer abuses a suspect, is law enforcement as a whole illigitimate? of course not, yet that is the argument Jacob and his sort are making.

- Bang

Would Hitler have threatened America? I think eventually he would have, if Nazi Germany had managed to crush Europe and the Soviet Union first. Thankfully we did not have find out the hard way.

My question was this: If Haditha makes our presence in Iraq illegitimate, does the firebombing of Dresden also make WWII illegitimate? The loss of civilian life was far higher in Dresden than in Haditha.

And as for Iraq – have you not heard about the new democratic government there? The Iraqi people now have a chance at democracy, something they never had under Saddam. The willingness of the anti-war movement to gloss over this is astounding.

Severian is right – let’s wait for the investigation to be concluded.

- A lie is followed right out the door with the truth these days, instead of lies leading by miles and days. Perceptions still count, but lies/propaganda can only mimic truth for a very short time, unfortunately for the left, so they tend to not carry the day anymore. In a world of hard facts, the left is in a alien landscape, and a world of hurt.

- Bang

And you have a very narrow and inaccurate view of the war if you think the only reason the war was started was “the express purpose of helping the people of Iraq.” That was one beneficial reason, but removing an unstable, dangerous, genocidal maniac who had designs on the whole Middle East, and yes, did have WMDs in the past, and IMO still had them (you do know they have found WMDs in Iraq don’t you?), and still had the capability of building more, who constantly violated international treaties and agreements, who almost daily shot at US aircraft, etc. etc. etc.

Next you’ll be telling us you really are a conservative, ex military, Republican, no, really!

WW2 was not fought to “free the German people from Nazi opression” or to “free the Japanese people from their Emperor”, that war were fought to defend the US from German and Japanese aggression. That’s the big difference with Iraq, and that’s why atrocities such as Haditha do delegitimize the US war there.

If you’re in the media, you can’t wait for a story to unfold, especially one as potentially explosive as the Haditha incident. You’ve got to scoop your competition, work your contacts, and hope for leaks that will produce copy… Or making up the ne…

- Just the same I’m hard put to remember ANY Conservative Politician EVER making a statement about “putting a bullet between the eyes” of a sitting president, or any president or any other official for that matter. At some point something needs to be done to tone down the crazyness of the left, and some of their equally crazy public statements.

- What makes the outreageous comment even more eggregious, and stupid, is that he preceded it with “…[how] do I say this diplomatically…”. The Left really needs to get some common sense, or theres going to start to be some repercussions, and I can’t say they don’t deserve it.

- Bang

As I begin looking forward to my weekend, I realize blogging has been pretty light lately. I’m three weeks away from packing up out here in California and heading back home for a little while before I start Officer Training

Not quite gone – the firebombing of Dresden comes to mind.

The May Lai Massacre was the result of the actions of a small handful of US soldiers. We don’t know about Haditha yet (despite the hyperventilating of the MSM and John Murtha), but critics of the Iraq war would be hard pressed to prove that this is an example of murderous intent on the part of the entire US military.

Dresden, on the other hand, cost 35,000 or more Germans their lives – and was part of a general military strategy to “punish” the German people. Winston Churchill was repulsed by the bombing although it was carried out by Air Marshall Arthur Harris. I know of no historian who argues that bombing Dresden was anything other than pure revenge.

I am curious – did the Dresden firebombing somehow negate the war against fascism? Do we owe Hitler an apology for “an illegal war of occupation”? Should we withdraw all US troops from Europe (where they have been since the end of WWII)? How far does moral equivalency go?

Finally, I have a hard time believing the crocodile tears of the “anti-war” movement about the children of Iraq. What about the children slaughtered almost daily by the “insurgents”? Where was their outrage over the genocide in Cambodia? Why should anyone take the antiwar movement seriously after that?