May God watch over the troops and bring them home safely, mission(s) accomplished! Too bad that reporters like B. Ross just don't "get it"...be diligent when you read his column...has ability to twist reality to satisfy his agenda.

'God Bless all of our military'? 'Be safe and kick butt'? You people are scary.

The unfortunate reality is that these troops wouldn't need to be on this operation and back on FULL WAR FOOTING if it weren't for the misguided war in Iraq. I hope that no one else has to die b/c of one poor president's mistakes.

A real war with a timetable and a real enemy. Makes you wonder about Iraq.

My prayers are with our forces. May God keep them all safe as our sons and daughters are fighting for a just cause.

May God bless you all as he is on our side.

Hey, Mr. President...

THIS is why you never should have invaded Iraq.

My hero and son will be 19 years old June 23rd. He is a soldier and has what is considered the most dangerous job in the military, Petroleum Delivery Specialist. This is what the soldiers call a suicide job. He is one brave and tough s.o.b. He is scheduled to leave for Iraq soon. I wish the United States of America had more people like him. Happy Birthday son, and god bless you.

Go get 'em BUT watch your backs and please, stay in groups of 25 or more.
Don't get distracted by the enemy in the hopes of breaking up the convey......watch each others back and GOOD LUCK !!!!

We want to see you back home ALIVE !!

How easy it is to pray and to bless. What nonsense. War doesn't care who is being prayed for. War takes lives, and it rarely makes heroes, it makes victims. These are not "the fallen" they are the mutilated, the exploded to bits, the gunned down, the beheaded. Many of our young men are signing up for the military because they don't have money to go to college, to be used and discarded by a President with an agenda that has nothing to do with defense. This war has nothing to do with patriotism, a concept that to many Americans is little more than flags on paper plates at July 4 picnics. Fantasies about God may comfort the believer, but they don't help the soldier who right now, thousands of miles from home, is losing his life.

Well, I expect at least 2 solid report from ABC reporters for the next 3 months on ABC nightly news if this is so important, or is it? I guess that will depend on if we get some good video.

I have a friend over there, so I'm a little disappointed with the lack of TV stories on Afghanistan. Peace out.

Now we know where part of the missing arms shipments from Bosnia went. Take the emphasis off of Iraq and put it back on Afganistan. The quail hunting buddy system!

With all due respect to the previous posts invoking the protection of God. Does anyone believe that Islamic Jihadists pray for or believe in divine intercession with any less fervor and conviction than Americans?

I don't believe that God roots for either side in conflicts, whether they be football games or war.

remember the cia created osama,created sadam and gave him the raw material for biological and chemical weapons via bush senior and rumsfeld, remember the taliban was wheeling and dealing with bush two and kenny boy playing nice with cheney to get that pipe line through afganistan, remember imperial memories, remember twenty thousand wounded iraqi babies now pray to who,and what dogma for who and what cause save your tears theres more to come

American Crusaders - make no mistake: God is not on our side. In fact, we're all going to have one hell of a day of reckoning. God have mercy on the United States of America.

"I don't believe that God roots for either side in conflicts, whether they be football games or war."

God bless that.

This has been the nature of Afghanistan since Alexander the Great's troops were the victims of hit-and-run attacks - it is a tribal society, and no central government has ever controlled the entire country.

So many innocent mother's and wives and family members that have written are so naive to think that these fine soldiers are fighting to keep us safe. They are fighting in Afghanistan to continue the the war that was not finished correctly. How loud can we say this. We support our troops. We are amazed that they can do what they are doing. HOWEVER, Bush sent these 11,000 fine soldiers to do a job in Afghanistan that requires 150,000 troops. He started a war with Iraq for oil and corporate profits and greed and assumed power. He took the war away from the Taliban to fight for oil and control of the middle east. He has fooled all you sweet people praying to God to keep your sons and husbands safe. If you want to keep them safe insist that they be brought home. We are now gearing up to fight the Taliban that we did not defeat 3 years ago. The men in charge have blundered and failed with your soldier's lives. We are not fighting to keep America safe. We are fighting to keep the coporations rich. Pray to God if it makes you feel better. I will ask and plead for an end to this disasterous fight for money, power, control corporate greed and insanity..

The 3 month time line is to make sure they have a win before the November elections. Scumbags all of them. I can't even tell you the pain in my heart as to what is being done to us all by the insane incompetant evil people in the white house.

America needs to wins minds and hearts of muslims if they are going to have any sense of security. America must stop actng double standards. Muslims are not like Germany nazis or Japan which invaded for other counry to build their empire. Muslims are not tryng to invade USA. America invaded muslim countries killing women and children.

Why didn't we finish the job in Afghanistan where the "real killers" were?
In May we redeployed the B1-B
heavy bombers to Afghanistan and ordered billions of dollars in new precision guided bombs and are right back where we were fighting the Taliban before we invaded Iraq for no apparent reason.
Our constant reliance on air power will mean that US forces will be stuck in both Iraq and Afghanistan forever since neither country has any real air force.
How do a few thousand insurgents
and terrorists manage to keep the most powerful military on earth tied up so completely?
How would we have ever survived a war against the much more formidable Warsaw Pact if we still can't defeat, or even find, Mullah Omar with his one good eye?