TTR: setting ourselves up for "terrorist reprisals?" The inference here, I suppose, is if we are nice to the terrorists, they will be nice to us. Get a grip rhymer.

What's happening in Iraq should come as no surprise to anyone. There are still Saddam hangers-on in Iraq, they want things to be the way they were. They had it pretty good then. Also, the ambitious cleric who sees himself as the next Saddam is waiting in the wings for the U. S. and other countries to leave, then he thinks he can move in and impose radical Muslem rule over the people. That guy has to be eliminated, or put in a jail for life.

Comparisons with what is going on now in Iraq, and what went on in Vietnam is ridiculous (IMO of course). The Viet Cong had government sponsorship and not just from Vietnam. As far as we know, the troublemakers in Iraq are terrorists acting independently.

DougR

DougR