Pmartin;

Nice use of the Code of Conduct. After six years of active duty I'm sure you're aware that the CoC was written for servicemembers that are in a position to be captured by the enemy. It was not meant as a patriotic call to arms.

I'm guessing that in the time frame you were active you spent some time in the gulf during the "hundred-hour Kuwaiti liberation." I'm surprised that given your feverish support of our administration you are only in the Inactive Ready Reserve and not a member of a Guard or Reserve unit. Surely there's a unit out there that can use your motivation.

I doubt you will find a single individual on this board that is not supportive of the men and women in the Armed Forces today. No one here wants to see a single person killed in this debacle. And that is precisely why some are speaking out against the current administration. They believe there is a better way to handle the situation.

Look at your own tag line; we're all amatuers here, and Bush is a professional.

Finally, when taking into consideration the number of countries in the world and the percentage of those that are backing us, it just makes me wonder if we really are doing the right thing. It's not because we're the only ones brave enough or strong enough. China and Russia alone are pretty formidable. And we're only talking Iraq here; we're already looking like we're taking a gun to a fist fight.