War in Iraq, is there a point?

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Either way, while we're fighting & our soldiers are dying, it would be the patriotic thing to do while in public at the very least keep the negativity to a minumum so as to avoid encouraging the terrorists.

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It might be the patriotic thing to do, but it is certainly not the right thing to do. If the war is wrong, then any American soldier that is killed or maimed is a life that has been wasted for no reason. Any Iraqi civillian that is killed or maimed is a life that has been wasted for nor reason. A prolonging of the war is a tragedy that has no purpose.

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Perhaps it's my shortcoming in that I don't understand leftist dogma.

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Maybe your rightist dogma is clouding your thinking.

As a citizen of a country that claims to be a democracy, it is not only my right but my duty to voice my opinions, and to do what I can to prevent and correct wrongs done by the government, even if it claims to do its wrongs in my name.

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With that privilege though comes responsibility. The invasion of Iraq took place rightly or wrongly. Now that the decision has been made each individual, (even though they may have been opposed to the American forces being in Iraq in the first place), should, I think, support the continuing efforts in Iraq.

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A wrong does not cease to be a wrong just because a "decision has been made", nor does one's responsibility to stop it end.

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I'm just saying that in my view it would be morally wrong to now pull out of Iraq and leaving them ungoverned and defenceless.

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In my view, it is up to the Iraqis themselves to determine whether the continued presence of US forces is morally right or wrong, and under what conditions it would be morally right to remain.

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... your fellow American citizens?

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He's new here, Charles.

Funny how none of those things bothered the US when the Shah of Iran or Pinochet were using them.