http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/30/340112.aspxby John Rutherford, producer, Washington D.C. What should the U.S. do in Iraq? Gen. David Petraeus is set to deliver a much-anticipated progress report on Iraq in a few weeks, but we went out to Walter Reed Army Medical Center today to get an assessmenten-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/30/340112.aspx#340569Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:16:55 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:340569Laurel Noel, Leonardtown, Maryland, USACan you support the troops without supporting the war?  I believe you can, but what I hear and read from those who are serving is that you can't have one without the other.  It's not that I don't believe in fighting terrorists where they live - I just don't believe that we should have ever gone into Iraq in the first place.  I believe the decision to declare war was based on faulty intelligence, and general lack of patience on the part of the Executive branch.  I'm not sure that this endeavor has been worth the thousands of American and coalition lives lost and maimed - not to mention the devastation to the Iraqi civilian population, although I don't fault our troops for that ongoing tragedy.  On the other hand, now that Iraq's infrastructure and peoples have been decimated, I believe we have a moral obligation to stay and fix the mess, to at least try to establish stability for their do-nothing central government.  I do support our troops.  I know service members who have served in Iraq, and who are currently there.  I do support them - that's why I don't want them to die anymore.