My final foray here for a few days. Usually can only do a couple days, every couple of hours in th mornings.

No defense of myself, Amos, but I was not slandering her. I said I regret - she has been referred to a media wh... on more than show, and implied on many others.

One other thing; your 1:19 PM post from Commondreams.org and an article written by Mark Sandalow and another by Jason Reed. I have never heard of either writer nor have I heard of the Blog.
This is a Democratic view and not of all Democrats. It just does not make sense to seek out, read and post that which meets ones fancy.

While I may be able to see a reason for Iraq, and don't single this out as our main problem in our world, as I have read a lot of history as I am sure you have and we are just one big morass of warring and killing since the world came about. I can nowhere find a story regarding this conflict that I can completely agree with.
1.e., being careful not to damage the Mosques being used by the insurgents as foxholes. With my limited knowledge, even I know that a 500 pound would work on them as well as a government building. Why, you may ask? To save the lives of American troops. Religion has nothing to do with it. We learned to do that in WW2 when the Germans occupied the churches. The first thing the tanks did upon reaching a town was shell the steeples.