"There's been a lot of kidnappings, a lot of assassinations, just in the last couple of weeks," said Col. Jerry L. Durrant of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, who oversees the coordination of the U.S. military with Iraqi security forces. "The government in Baghdad is not recognized by anyone in Al Anbar." -Truthout.com

Rush Limbaugh, along with his minions and others in talk radio have echoed recently that "a defeatist attitude" and "pessimism" along with "dissent" are detrimental to our current war effort. I have heard it claimed that these things are what lost Vietnam, but when the comparison to that mistake is made to the present one in Iraq it is not acceptable to the conservative palate. The sad thing is, Mr. Kerry(the Great Left Hope?!) will not even challenge our foreign policy or the war in a context that would advocate totally changing our current militaristic posture in Iraq or the world. He will not claim that it and everything pertaining to maintaining our current military industrial complex is wasteful and horribly wrong. He will not speak about that pesky international land mine ban we will not approve, or our how our use of depleted uranium(DU) will affect iraq for thousands of years. He wont utter a sound about the fact that WE sold saddam the gas used on the Kurds, and the helicopter used to disburse it. Kerry will not remind the American taxpayer that we provided all the funds necessary to carry all this out. These few alone cry out, but what of the deeds beyond number i have not provided? I need to git-but ill leave with this-the hypocricy on both sides is astonishing at the least, and abhorrent at best. I say that if "dissent"can save lives then i scream it with every breath.