No SH, it doesn't come across at all as being snotty.

I should point out here that Susu's Hubby, also PM'd this to me, but as he has posted here also, I think my reply, in fairness, should also be public. So copy/pasted as follows:-



"A very cogent and reasoned reply, and, of course, in an ideal world one could not refute a word of it. As far as the soldiers fighting both for the USA, and for Britain, are concerned, you have indeed answered my questions, and very well.

My problem is with the USA and UK governments, who went to war on the basis of a pack of lies. The evidence for this is also irrefutable, amd my fear is that these people don't care how many men die, as long as it serves their political aims.

If those aims were in any way about liberty and democracy for Iraq, as opposed to the personal aggrandisement of the two men responsible, I would not be worried.

I foresee a situation analogous to Vietnam, where they will stay too long in a no win situation, and soldiers will die unnecessarily to provide copy for their personal memoirs.

And I fear that young men who have served a cause in which they, believed will return home to be spat upon, and called baby killers, as happened after Vietnam.

I think that the squandering of their youth, or even their lives, cannot be justified on the basis of bringing democracy to a country which, in the main hates, and distrusts all western democracies, and particularly the USA.

It is not even certain that the majority of Iraqis want democracy, but it is certain that they want to see the back of what they consider to be invaders of their territory. The most likely outcome, IMO, is that the Ayatollahs will take over, and we will have created an enemy state far worse than the one we brought down".

Don T.