I’ll believe it when I see it. I’d like to reiterate my opinion that we should (still) level Iraq. It’s kind of like buying a laser printer versus buying an inkjet: A laserjet is $500 bucks and it’s a lot out of pocket, but an inkjet runs you $50 bucks in ink a month, which is $600 a year. We’ve made progress in Iraq - a ton of it - but I’d give the thumbs-up to temporarily relocating the troops and dropping an A-bomb. Trying to root-out terrorists one-by-one is a pain in the ass, kind of like buying ink.

... You want to kill tens of thousands of innocent people because hunting terrorists out the slow way is “a pain in the ass”?
You know, once again, Nick, I’m forced to repeat to you the following phrase: “Get off my side. You’re making my side look stupid.” Or, more accurately, you’re making the pro-war side look like the heartless monsters the Leftards want to portray us as.
Shut up. I don’t care what it is you do after you shut up… feel free to add dying to it, I don’t care. But just shut up.

I’m not at the A-bomb level of frustration, but I do wish that there were less reporters in Iraq and less restrictions on the troops.  Imagine if WW2 was fought under today’s conditions?  We’d all be speaking German.

Let them do their jobs...this would be a very different 2005 if Bush had taken Rummy asaide and simply ordered him to listen to the commanders on the ground.

You know, once again, Nick, I’m forced to repeat to you the following phrase: “Get off my side. You’re making my side look stupid.” Or, more accurately, you’re making the pro-war side look like the heartless monsters the Leftards want to portray us as.

I hate to tell you Rann, but war isn’t pretty, and it sure isn’t fair. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made, especially when progress is at a near standstill.

No one wanted to bomb the daylights out of Japan just because it sounded like a good idea --- it was a good idea.

JimK is right --- if the troops had less restrictions and could do their job, I seriously doubt if I would be at the point of frustration where I want to turn the vast majority of the Middle East into a glass parking lot.

But I do. So take it for what it’s worth, but that’s how I feel. Frankly, I could care less if the left thinks I/we/us are heartless monsters, because I’m perfectly fine with being called a heartless monster if that’s what it takes to keep this country, my family, and my friends safe and intact.

Sometimes sacrifices have to be made, especially when progress is at a near standstill.

Emphasis mine.
This displays a horrible mingling of both the Left’s screeching and the Right’s screeching, like some horrible zombie child born of a monstrous womb.
“The war isn’t moving fast enough, so we should kill everyone and everything.”
The problem is, Nick, you aren’t just being called a heartless monster, you are a heartless monster. You’re not talking about killing them for the sake of your family being safe, you’re talking about killing them because you want satisfaction and you want it NOW. You’re not wanting it done for your country, you’re wanting it done for your peace of mind. They’re different things.
Tell you what. Take a look at the photo essay that JimK linked to, that I notice you have no comment on. Comment there saying “They should die” if you really think sheer expediency is worth it.
Just that. Nothing more. Comment on the entry about the smiling children who greet American soldiers gladly because they get to be free with nothing but the words “They should die.” If you can do that without feeling like a heartless monster, then there is a hollow place in that shell you call a body where in any true human a soul would be, and nothing can be said or done that will sate your bloodlust.