Dead horse man. I was just continuing on what you said, but adding a touch of realism.
Victory can be achieved here and we are seeing progress here every day. Each day we go on a raid and capture a bad guy, and the Iraqi Army is the one leading the way, that is progress. When we can walk out of our patrol base even a few feet without any protective gear, that is progress. When we have not been attacked in almost a year (I am speaking of this patrol base since it is a little less than a year old and has only been attacked once), that is progress. When I see all the shops in town open for business, that is progress. When we have former insurgents now earning an honest living as the newly formed Sons of Iraq, manning checkpoints ensuring that insurgents are not roaming the streets, that is progress. When this country can hold legitimate elections, that is progress. When our feel good humanitarian missions outnumber our combat missions (raids and such) by three or four to one, that is progress. When the people come out and wave at us and smile at us as we drive by, rather than hide, that is progress. When we actually share the roads with the Iraqi's rather then force them off the road when we drive, that is progress. Everything I have mentioned I have seen first hand here, and this is in stark contrast to when I was here three years ago, where none of these things were happening. And the US and Iraq have drafted a resolution to have us out of here by 2011, and the US Generals are comfortable with that as well as the Iraqi leadership, that is real progress. That is a light at the end of the tunnel. Every day I am amazed at the progress that has been made in the three short years since I was last here, and it makes me proud to know that I am a small part of that. Bruce On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:50 PM, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who decides when you've won, man? A year from now, will things really be > that different? Iraq will still be struggling with it's government and > sectarian strife...there will still be bad people there trying to derail > the > fragile peace.....I guess I don't understand what "victory" you are waiting > for, that you haven't already achieved? > > Oh, and if you were ordered home tomorrow, I would hope you would come home > with your head held high. > > -- > Divine creation hears me > And it squashes me with fear > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280798 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
