The Birthplace of Rage

[Elessar]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/06/ ... topstories

These kinds of things help me to understand why our boys sometimes overreact with slippery trigger fingers and fire with questionable provocation. I'm sure this kind of thing happens more than we hear.

[Distracted]

Time to get out of there and let these people kill each other instead of our boys. They've been doing it for centuries. Occupying the country does nothing but put Americans in harm's way. JMO.

[Linda]

JMO too, Distracted. Lets get out. We all have friends and relatives in the military, and I am proud of our military. And I am active in a military support organization - the Coast Guard Auxiliary, (with draftable status into the reserve to man the local CG stations if all the regulars and reserve people get sent overseas - unlikely, but not impossible). I just think they are in an impossible situation over there in Iraq. And of course to me, our soldiers are looking so young now, not like during the Viet Nam war when they were my age mates.

And I agree with Elessar that it is very understandable that our boys (which of course now includes 'our girls' - let's not forget that!) have slippery trigger fingers when you just never know where and when an attack may come!