Yo GUEST: There is no moral superiority here, unless you percieve someone you consistently preaches making every effort to find better ways of solving difference between peoples tahn blowing folk up. If that is moral superiority, then yeah, count me in.

I have nothing but respect for my brothers and sisters in uniform and during the Vietnam War, made every effort to accomodate the folks from Fort Lee, Va. at a Rock-n-Roll joint that I ran in Richmond. I graduated fromn a small military school with a graduating class of about 125 of which 8, who were my friends, died in Vietnam. I lost one cousin in Vietnam and another barely survived after being critically injured from a land mine.

And, everyone has the 20/20 hindsight when it comes to the last war with Iraq and lots of folks think it would have been as easy to take out Saddam as it was to expell the Iraqis from Kuwait. I disagree. There is something about urban warfare that is inherently dangerous. I'm not saying this from any illusion of superiority on any level. It has been reported that it is a major concern of the Pentegon, as well it should be. It certainly does not play to our strengths and it is very much in Saddam's end of the court. His brother has all ready said that is their plan. I think it is a fair concern.

And where is the rhetoric that you speak of, GUEST?

Bobert