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Wes,

Local police do not have to deal on a regular basis with fully automatic weapons, RPG's, IED's, and squads of gangsta's attacking them. The police are totally ill equipped to deal with anything like this. This is a war, where only the military is capable of dealing with the situation. Anyone thinking it's the job of the police has his head.......in the wrong place.

In the military I've seen men whimper and cry, unable to mount a reasonable defense let alone an offense when the rounds come flying their way. Things happen so very fast in an ambush that lasts 30 seconds at best before they disengage and run away. Things happen in that 30 seconds that most don't even know happen. To me it's a little cheeky for someone who was not engaged in it to try to make assumptions that they're totally unfit to make. I get pissed that the poor guys not only have to worry about the bullets that come from the front but also the knife that's coming from the back. To me unless you can prove that they simply took civilians out and knowingly knelt them down and shot them in the back of the head (think My Lai) then anything done during a search mission you give the guy the benefit of the doubt, you don't try to send him to Leavenworth for life.

My beef with Steve is that he goes out of his way to constantly portray everything in a negative light that deals with our side while pointing out the nobility of the other side. He is in my opinion anti-American. He will go on ad nauseam about stacking naked prisoners in a pyramid (god didn't they used to do that at frat hazings?) while not saying a word about hanging civilian contractors upside down from a bridge and setting them on fire. WTF gives on the relativity of the situation??? I can only take it as a hatred of America.