You say defeating Iran in a conventional military war would be easy, because we so easily beat Iraq in 1990 when everyone said it would be difficult. That's comparing a watermelon to a peanut.

Aren't you aware that we sent 500,000 troops to simply drive the Iraqi forces out of tiny Kuwait, and the 100 hour land battle was preceeded by a massive 30-day aerial bombardment that softened up the Iraqi military and destroyed its command and control system and much of the Iraqi infrastructure? Even then Bush I declined to go on to Baghdad and take over the country because he was aware of the problems that would bring.

Bush II tried to take over all of Iraq on the cheap, with only 130,000 troops or so and without any planning for what came after defeating the Iraqi army. We know where that got us.

Our 150,000 troops in Iraq, over five years later, are bogged down in police keeping mode, not suitable for fighting massed troops. We also have almost no reserve capacity, and it would take a year to correct that even if we didn't resort to the draft.

You need better than the Gulf War analogy to make your case.

After I got through ROFLMA off over this story, I wondered: Why did AFA select it in the first place?

They're hardly a sports oriented blog, and I don't see other sports stories in its blog. If Gay's name had been Smith, would the story (and several related ones) have been published at all, without the auto replacement of his name?

Do they robo-select the stories from AP headlines with the word "gay" in them, and then reprint them using auto replace? Does anyone even scan them first?

The most superficial skim of that story should have shown even the AFA dimwits that it was about a man who happened to be named Gay, just like 15 people in my local phone book, and nothing whatever to do with homosexuality.