Polls

I don't know where all the polls are being taken that show such a negative opinion of President Bush and the war in Iraq. I bet if the poll were taken in Hyde County or even in South Dakota, the results would be a lot different. We here live in a quiet and fairly safe community and hope to keep it that way.l We regret the loss of the life or the injury of even one person in Iraq where we are spending a lot of money and lives trying to make a safe and prosperous country where people can live in peace and enjoy life. A country that is rife with indiscriminate murderers that are being helped and supplemented with help from outside of its borders. A country that is unable to police itself.

All these suicide bombers that are being brain washed to think they will be martyrs and go to heaven if they kill themselves and a lot of other innocent people better think again. They are less than human, just plan murderers, and if there is such a place as hell, they will surely be there for eternity.

We are obligated to fight for what is right and our own protection.

If you came face to face with a mad dog or animal and turn and run, you have let down your defenses, and they will be right on your back. If we cut and run in Iraq, the same thing will happen. We've given them the incentive and the chance to get on our back. If we didn't tell the bad guys what we were going to do all the time, we might have more success in accomplishing our goals. Now we told the insurgents that we were going to clean up Baghdad so they moved out and are doing their damage in other parts of the country.

You can't fight an enemy that has no morals or scruples and uses every dirty trick they can think of by fighting by a code of ethics and telling them ahead of time what your plans are. It seems to me if we put more effort into communicating with the people and get them to understand what we are trying to accomplish and how much money and effort we are spending to accomplish this without any benefit to ourselves, and that we are anxious to finish the job so we could go back home. We could get more support from the general public and maybe get some of the tribal leaders together to settle their differences. Surely there must be some common sense people there that would listen to reason.