Valentine's Day Greeting from our Top Commander: "Off to a good start!" --- Except for the 12 civilians from 1 family who were accidentally killed!

US Marines Entering Marjah in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan

NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians on Sunday (Valentine's Day) ... and the second day of an offensive designed to impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big (where have I heard that before?) Taliban strongholds in the country's Helmand province.

From what we've been told, the dead were all members of the same family--probably scared to death of the horrendous noise of war--while hunkering down in their own home.

How many more, Mr. President, before we've avenged the attacks on 9-11? No one wants peace in the world more than I do, sir, but after losing more of our own military in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9-11 than the total number of our own who were killed on 9-11, I'd say we've gotten "even" by this time ...

Is Osama bin Laden in Marjah? Somehow, I doubt it ... anymore than Al-Quaida was in Iraq until after we invaded it during "Shock and Awe."

I say that it's time to quit!

How long after the Vietnam fiasco were we back stocking our shelves at WalMart with goods labeled "Made in Vietnam"? We sure got "even" for that Gulf of Tonkin incident [sic], didn't we? We still haven't counted all the US Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force personnel who were lost during that holocaust, have we? I've heard numbers between 58,000 and 60,000 and as for the number of Vietnamese who were killed ... we'll never know!