...with all due respect, I am engaging in this debate using my own ideas and my own words with the only exception being when I quote another poster. Everyone on this board can copy and paste volumes of text that can support their opinion and weaken the opinions of others. I do appreciate the time you took to bring those articles to my attention, but I don't see how it should serve to change my viewpoint. Those articles are, at the highest and most general levels, against the war and against US tactics. By the same example, I could simply copy and paste speeches by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, etc... that will all support the war and support the US tactics in the war. I respectfully decline to take the time out to completely read those articles because I would rather the other side of this argument come from what someone knows, not what someone knows how to find.