dear mr obama

October 31, 2008 - 9:16am by ctugwell

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Spike wrote on November 6, 2008 - 6:36pm:

We used faulty intellegence to justify this war because Sadam had weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was a flatout mistake. That is not to say the solders are not brave, and I do not support the troops. I wholeheartedly support the troops. I do not support what the troops have been told to do. I want to bring them back to their family.

America has brave solders. I know this. My father is one, and I have met many others. Right now he is working in Afghanistan, the actual theatre of war we should participate in.

Barack Obama never said that the troops sacrifices were a mistake. You don't disrespect anything by disagreeing with the war.

My father always told me that we lost Vietnam because we conducted it like a police action. You cannot police a nation with your military, because your military does not exactly know who its enemy is. We see this same type of police action in Iraq, and that is why we will never "win" the war in Iraq. There will always be someone who wants to stand against our ideals.