Who don't I pity? Here's one http://www.alternet.org/story/29709/[/quote]

Fred pleae......what does that link have to do with it? I don't think that the sniper would be firing at the bulletproof vests of the troops...unless of course, he had read that article and was hoping for a soldier to be still wearing a 'defective' one.

There is no mention from you of the thousands and thousands of people who were killed under Saddam's rule. Was he justified in what he was doing in the same way as the sniper is 'justified' in that he was protecting his homeland and governing body from people who would overthrow that regime? I have mixed feelings about the 'war', 'invasion' whatever you want to call it, but we are there and it's a mess but what do we do. Pull out and let them murder each other?????.......think that we have been in that situation before?