You said it Sir Des, Got to look after your own. How obvious is it and we still think we are the world's protector. I understand the volatility in the mid-east, but once Turkey tried to hold the US hostage for using their country to invade from the north(therefore capturing most of the insurgents who were hiding in the Sunni Triangle) to the tune of $1 Billion to invade Iraq from the north, south, and west instead of comig from the south and east and pushing the bad guys north until we captured/libertated Baghdad and then they come back to Baghdad. Our military is spread too thin right now.

Now this is getting unfrigging believable. Stories comig out of the now evacuated Superdome are of multiple rape, murders, stabbings, guards not allowing people to leave, women not being able to go the bathroom without men for fear of rape and murder, and guardsman shooting people. One 16 year old kid ran outside to get the cops after a man raped and stabbed a teenage girl to death, jumped on their windshield and they shot him in the head. Even the National Guardsman are criticizing Bush and the thinning of troops because of Iraq, anonymously of course for fear of reparcations from the Bush admin.