[aharris]

Chopper

I can't see a grieving mother/wife being consoled by the knowledge that her loved one was collateral damage. Dead is dead, loss is loss. It's human to look around for a reason and something to blame. Guess who is getting the blame? Bottom line is with current policies things are getting worse.

26,000 is the estimated number of non-combatant civilians killed "this year". Justifiable collateral damage?

Apparently your definition of treason trumps your first amendment rights? If we follow your game plan and "winning" is the only endpoint, please define the criteria for winning for me.

Suggesting that the genocide in Cambodia would not have happened if the US had "won" in Vietnam is ridiculous. Pol Pot's vision was the conversion back to an agrarian society. Those killed were the "intellectuals" that threatened that vision. Suggesting that US presence would somehow "scare" him into not committing those atrocities is questionable. If it were the case then Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Darfur would not have happened.

Please note I make no reference to left, right or center. This is not an issue of politics it is one of humanism.

BTW I'm sipping my Tim Horton's as I type.

Cheers

Andrew