All this Iraqy campaign looks more and more like russian invasion in to Afganistan. The similarities are striking. Easy initial victory and then guerilla warfare, inability to secure the border and no end in site. That not to mention that american troops, in large degree are fighting the same people that were fighting soviet troops in Afganistan. How come you never mention that in your reports? Or you are not allowed to write about it?

That's funny. What I don't understand is how people can equate us with the Russo-Afghanistan war when the differences are very apparent. The Russians were trying to suppress a people that were rebelling against thier rule, while the Americans are trying to liberate a people that have been ruled by a viscious dictator and tortured by sectarian violence and death squads. The United States and its partners in the War on Terrorism are trying to give the Iraqi people the opportunity to live in freedom, free of worry from the threats of sectarian violence and roaming death squads.

If you inquire into the history books about the official reason given for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, it will say that they went to war for national security, and to subdue islamic extremism that they felt was a threat to their border. Yes, Iraq is becoming very much like the Soviet invasion, and Vietnam. America is a great country, but we must be smart enough to know that we are not the answer to the world's ills, nor should we put our good men and women in harms way to try and prove it. There is no such thing as democracy by gunpoint. 5 years ago, if you spoke out against Saddam, you were put in jail and possibly tortured, today if you speak out against the ruling party, you are put in jail and possibly tortured. That does not make us liberators.

Many more need to see what our guys do over there as well. My son is stationed over there and they spend many a day setting up medical units treating Iraqi families for injuries and sickness... I have pictures sent to me of the troops habnding out gifts to the children...gifts that my friends have sent for them..pencils, crayons, stuffed animals etc. In my eyes, that is a good deed past exception! Yes, I would love to have our troops back home where they belong, but at least give them the credit for doing good...and giving you your freedon to write and think for yourselves!

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