Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

Here is a great smackdown of the smug YearlyKos moderator, John Soltz, who so shamefully treated a U.S. Soldier who tried to ask a question at the Nutroots convention last weekend. There are also some great insights here into h…

Thanks, I appreciate that.

DarkKnight apparently doesn’t do the math:

MoE ± 3
Sorry, I had to point that one out. I’m a statistician.

I assume that this poll also has a 3+- MoE, which would mean that there could be a statistical difference between the two polls.

Liberals despise the military.

OK, to be fair, not all of them do.  But look at the plethora of liberal organizations that seem hell bent against the Military.  People like Cindy Sheehan, the Code Pink and more.  They attack the ROT…

What a MORON !!!

Well said … as a former Marine I thank you for your service and pray for you and all your comrades to be safe as you protect even those of us that are too dumb to appreciate your sacrifices … sleep well and safe …

To be honest, I start to tear up when I think of all the fine young men and women standing ‘watch’ right at this moment so that I can lay in bed next to my wife and type this.

Kevlaur

Please read my entire post next time. Doing so will result in fewer foolish, unnecessary, and angry replies from you. We are playing on the same team. I was quoting the distinguished A. Whitney Brown.

Sincerely,

A former moral retard

According to the numbers you quoted we (the U.S.A.) have basically no troops involved in U.N. peacekeeping forces …

However, I was including the 42,500 American Troops that are still in Korea … and that is a peacekeeping force put in place as a result of a U.N. action … the Korean War … although other countries took part in the war the bulk of the ongoing peacekeepers are American … Those numbers don’t seem to be reflected in the ones you quoted … guess many have forgotten that Korea was a U.N. war …

Thanks for the interest in the post …

Been out of pocket all day and couldn’t respond to you until now …

- Currently with the aide of US forces. Without them there, at this point, would they still be able to?

“If we want to kill AQ, it is better to kill them in those countries than Iraq.”

- But the fact remains that AQ in Iraq, is still IN Iraq. Moving ’some’ of our troops to Afghanistan, and if permitted, Pakistan, would at this point counter-effect the surge is having.

We have seen, since the surge reached it’s full numbers, an increase in positive effects. To continue to argue that our real enemy is elsewhere and we should decrease those numbers to fight in those other locations, minimizes this battle to a one-dimentional focus.

It is not EITHER Afghanistan OR Iraq – it is both, like it or not. And BOTH must be addressed simultaneously.

Sorry, trying to get the left to make sense again.

This is your error. AQ in Iraq, by all accounts, is not powerful at all and is being fought off by the Shia. AQ does not have the resources to win a ground war in Iraq. Further, they are not interested in ground wars, they want to blow up embassies or buildings not fight ground wars.

Also, AQ can say what it wants. Saddam wanted his neighbors to belive he had WMD, that doesn’t mean he had them.

Finally, if you want to stop AQ, we can move some of our troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan (if permitted) to fight them there. If you want to kill Americans it is easier to it in New York or Los Angeles than in Japan or Australia. If we want to kill AQ, it is better to kill them in those countries than Iraq.