So, now it is up to the army to determine the politics of a country and not the people- interesting. I guess Cpt Galt would be very welcome in countries like Cuba or North Corea…

But serious, Article IV, Section 4:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.”

So, when did the Iraq invade the US- did I miss something?!

You have insulted Cpt Gault and you owe him an apology. You are the one who is as usual incorrect and showing your lack of knowledge. Last I checked, Clausewitz and Sun Tzu were on the list of recommended reading for Army officers. I personally opted for “A Bridge Too Far” for the report I had to write. Operation Market Garden was a true example of a military operation gone awry from the very beginning. It was in fact a military operation that was wholly based on bad intelligence. However that intelligence failed to indicate exactly how strong a threat was present versus the current situation wherein intelligence indicated a stronger one than existed. I would still rather destroy a city to prevent nuclear or chemical weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists and be wrong than to not do so and have the terrorists end up with them due to my inaction.

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John, it is quite frightening that somebody with your level of education/knowledge has be become a Captain, has the command over (I would guess) one hundred men and perhaps equipment for around a two-digit million dollars…
A constitution is the base for the law. It is (together with all other laws) given/maintained by your elected government. Your goverment is elected by the citizens of your country. And you serve the decision that have been made by your government, who represent the will of the citizens of your country.

John: You serve and protect your fellow countrymen- not an ancient piece of paper! This has got nothing to do with left or right- this has to do with democracy. Look it up in wikipedia. It’s greek for “rule by the people”…

Actually yeah. That is, I think, the appropriate response for something that the US government has balled up as badly as it has.

So based on what you said, the plan is surrender..just as we have been saying since day one..

Call it what you will, I see it as common sense. Once the horse is dead beating it with more and bigger sticks will not force it to get up and run again.

The Nazis is a valid arguement, but you would need to be intelligent enough to be able to see it.

Sorry dude, any argument that begins with “If the left had it’s way we’d all be speaking German or Japanese” is, quite frankly, not valid.

You don’t seem to have given any sort of thought to what happens if the Iraqi government does not, or is not able to, look after things to the satisfaction of the Bush administration before their patience runs out, what happens then?

– or is that we don’t have unending patience line just something he talks about to keep the electorate happy?