Coffee Shop Conversation About War in Iraq

Recently at a coffee shop there were two gentlemen talking about the war in Iraq. One was a homosexual from Canada on vacation in the United States, the other was a former military Colonel, who had a son and a brother both on active duty in Iraq. Need less to say the gentleman who looked to young to have made Colonel was pro-America, pro-Democracy and pro-Bush. The gentleman from Canada was quite liberal in his thinking and very anti-war. The both agreed that wars were a terrible tragedy of the human race and it was a shame anyone had to go to war.

The Canadian assumed that the former Colonel was upset about the equipment, bullet proof vests and armor on the Humvees and said;