DGDevin wrote:

To liberals, ending the war is the goal (for reasons passing
understanding), so the loss of a few lives is irrelevant.

You mean like the loss of 4,400+ American lives (not to mention those
of allies and Iraqis) for the goal of finding WMDs that didn't exist?
Just how immoral an act is starting a war on false pretenses?

We NEED a war every ten to fifteen years to keep the tip of the spear sharp.

Those that died were, to the man or woman, volunteers. They signed up
knowing the risk of death or serious injury, much like a mountain climber,
sky diver, race car driver, or Ralph, the guy who married my ex-wife. They
assumed these risks for the opportunity to kill people and blow things up
(Ralph, are you listening?).

It is, of course, regrettable that they died, but they died doing something
they loved. Fully 85% of those who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan
re-enlisted at the first opportunity. (The remaining 15% retired, were
invalided out, or married harridans.)

These folks are our warrior class. Waging war is what they were born to do,
what they trained to do, what they NEED to do. They do it for their
country's sake, for their family's sake, for honor's sake, for glory's sake.

This is something the cowards that dwell among us cannot understand and will
not accept.