Spiff... I said precisely nothing for you. I really love guys like you who love to take one small paragraph and try to make your case on it. So... let us examine this one paragraph.

1. Yes, We COULD have made Iraq into a parking lot. We did not. Instead, we are trying to bring a real democracy and self rule to the long suffering people there. Coalition forces have gone out of their way to avoid casualities. Britain ALSO could have made Iraq into nothing, and also showed restraint. We may not be perfect, but we are a good people. The "Shock and Awe" was intended to end the war quickly by making the Iraqi Army flee rather than fight to the death. There were a LOT of people predicting 500,000 Iraqi and 50,000 Coalition deaths ... Shock and Awe prevented that.

2. We are NOT controlling any oil in the mid-east.

3. And with Kuwait, after we liberated the country, we DID offer friendship. And for the most part, it wass accepted.

And to be clear, YOUR response was not a part of any form of polite dialogue....