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p> ALL TALK br> Re: George Neumayr's Kerry's Global Warming , Wlady Pleszczynski's From Lambert to Treblinka , David Hogberg's His Own Worst Enemy , and John Tabin's Why Bush Won : /p>

Mr. Neumayr writes, "[the Dafur discussion] revealed Kerry's view of the U.S. military as nothing more than a humanitarian errand boy for the United Nations." Just what in heck does Neumayr think Bush is doing with the U.S. military right now in Iraq? We won the invasion more than a year and a half ago. We got Saddam's sons last year and him last December -- why are we still there and why can't we defeat the insurgents!? Oh, because we're bringing freedom and democracy to the Iraqis. And Bush keeps bragging about how we are building schools and hospitals and whatnot. How is that not humanitarian? I thought conservatives weren't supposed to be nation builders. I thought the U.S. military is for breaking stuff and blowing stuff up. Why couldn't we have just taken Saddam out, leave Iraq, and on our way out tell the Iraqis that they can kill each other or do whatever they want but if they threaten us or our interests again, we'll be back?

p>Why are we stuck there fighting house to house? … Because Bush lacks the moral courage and the backbone to do so, plain and simple. One thousand fifty men have lost their lives and thousands more have been severely wounded -- not because our enemy is a comparable one on the battle field, but because the commander in chief lacks the vision and courage to do the right thing. Bush is afraid of an uprising if we fight too hard, so he is NOT letting our troops fight as fiercely as they are capable of. Bush blinked twice in Fallujah and three times in Najaf. Bush's restraint over the past year has been nauseating, and he will not get my support this time. Yeah, so we decided to get a little tough today in Samarra. TOO LITTLE; TOO LATE. Kerry may be no better, but Bush does not deserve a second term. br> --

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