[eagleclaw]

 What do you think, of the war so far? And what do you think how we could do better? Burn the terrorist into the ground. Or do the same things. What they did to USA on 9/11/2001.

[Ford Prefect]

I believe that every time we attempt to convey thoughts with sentence fragments, the terrorists win.

[Turambar]

i think we can change our ****ed up foreign policy and reduce the amount of people that want to kill us to a much more reasonable number. 

step 1:  stop funding israel

[redmenace]

step 2: stop fideling in the matters of other countries.

[Scuddie]

Step 3:  ?????

[Taristin]

Step 4: Find step 3. It was obviously taken by a terrorist.

[aldo_14]

What do you think, of the war so far? And what do you think how we could do better? Burn the terrorist into the ground. Or do the same things. What they did to USA on 9/11/2001.

An utter disaster which has managed to destabilise international relations and militarised fundamentalists across the globe, making us all less safe, whilst pissing away billions if not trillions of dollars that would be more effectively used as aid to actually win hearts and minds rather than spreading them across the streets of Baghdad.

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

Step 5: Elect a smart man as president........  

Or better yet, perhaps we should follow Germany's example, and finally elect a female leader.

And aldo, thank you so much for that lovely image now in my brain.  Your point, however, is well taken.

[Mefustae]

Step 3:  ?????

Step 4: Profit

[Polpolion]

I think our nation's leaders should stop sucking.

[Mefustae]

I think our nation's leaders should stop sucking.

Not to mention their interns.

Ba-zing!!

[Ace]

What do you think, of the war so far? And what do you think how we could do better? Burn the terrorist into the ground. Or do the same things. What they did to USA on 9/11/2001.

Burn the terrorist, the alien, the... ermmm... wait a sec.

Bush the Immoral Emperor?

[Kosh]

What do you think, of the war so far? And what do you think how we could do better? Burn the terrorist into the ground. Or do the same things. What they did to USA on 9/11/2001.

An utter disaster which has managed to destabilise international relations and militarised fundamentalists across the globe, making us all less safe, whilst pissing away billions if not trillions of dollars that would be more effectively used as aid to actually win hearts and minds rather than spreading them across the streets of Baghdad.

Couldn't have said it any better myself.

[eagleclaw]

 I totally agree with you. We need to grow some, and get the hell out of that area. Let them destory themselves. What else will go wrong on this tiny piece of dirt planet. Sorry about that, but a few people agree with tis statement before so I will say it again.

[IceFire]

What do you think, of the war so far? And what do you think how we could do better? Burn the terrorist into the ground. Or do the same things. What they did to USA on 9/11/2001.

The "War on Terror" so far has been a mismanaged mess of epic proportions.  It started fairly well...bombed the Taliban into the ground and Osama was on the run in the mountains of Afganistan with US Special Forces seemingly onto him. Then Bush decided to take a U turn and hit Iraq....Iraq being run by the notorious and blustering dictator Saddam Hussien who had NO weapons of mass destruction and apparently had no contacts with Al Qaeda.  Al Qaeda and Saddam were hated enemies!  So the US war machine turned on Iraq and left Afganistan with a small contingent of US soliders and a slowly growing NATO presence.  The hunt for Osama was even called off with the teams trying to track him sent to Iraq (as we've learned recently).

So with one report in the last couple of days putting Iraqi casualties at 600,000 dead, 2500 US soliders dead in Iraq (or more now?), and the Taliban making a comeback because they have been left to regroup...not a good situation.  I liked what the UK General in Iraq said today that British troops were welcomed before but they have overstayed their welcome and its best to pull them out soon.  Its time to let the Iraqi's figure out what sort of country they want to build and stop giving new terrorists a reason to fight the American infidels.

Then they can reposition some of the troops back in Afganistan and put an end to the Taliban and maybe resume the hunt for the guy who started all of this.  Move the rest of the troops home and get them ready incase North Korea's government collapses and South Korea needs help in the ensuing madness.

[aldo_14]

So with one report in the last couple of days putting Iraqi casualties at 600,000 dead, 2500 US soliders dead in Iraq (or more now?), and the Taliban making a comeback because they have been left to regroup...not a good situation.  I liked what the UK General in Iraq said today that British troops were welcomed before but they have overstayed their welcome and its best to pull them out soon.

Not just a general but the Head of British Army.

A cursory examination shows the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq to be one of the worst planned and most blindly idiotic occupations in history; even 10 minutes listening to regional experts would inform Blair and Bush that the Iraqis would not tolerate occupation by a foreign power (in fact, there's a story by an Iraq expert invited to 10 Downing Street just before the war, who calmly explained the Shia/Sunni division to Blair - only to be told by a baffled Blair "but they're all Muslim, aren't they?", who went on to entirely ignore their advice).  Any idiot, of course, (i.e. me, and before the war began) could tell you the watershed in Iraq would not be the war, but afterwards.  Equally, any idiot could tell you sending a US army into a Muslim country might as well be painting a bullseye on it and handing out suicide vests.

It (Iraq) will go down as a mistake of the scale of Vietnam - perhaps not in combat death terms, but in terms of the massive impact on global stability and as a justifier for terrorist acts (and recruitment) over the next decade and beyond.

[karajorma]

in fact, there's a story by an Iraq expert invited to 10 Downing Street just before the war, who calmly explained the Shia/Sunni division to Blair - only to be told by a baffled Blair "but they're all Muslim, aren't they?"

This from the man who has the responsibility of making sure that the Catholics and Protestants talk peace in Northern Ireland

[eagleclaw]

Totally agree with you.