Where is Bin Laden anyway....Hello!
Connie?
Where is Bin Laden?

 

He'd probably have been killed in a coup because of the economic strain the sanctions had his country under. But, even if he was still in power, Iran would not be building a puppet nation in Iraq and 2991 American military lives would not have been wasted on a country we gain nothing from nor offer anything too.

Afghanistan I understand. The hard turn into Iraq made no sense. Re-electing Bush made even less sense.

 

well, you make a point there....except we do get something from that country....it's called oil...not alot....not enough....but stilll, it feeds our need

Not to start on a bio fuel rant....

 

I think that us capturing Saddam is a huge plus and one of the proofs that the war has been worth while and will continue to be. War is hell and I think that we should do what we can to stay out of it but I also think that it is inevitable and that there is a time for it. Invading Iraq will surely pay off in the long run so long as the nation sticks it out.

If we pull out now and half-a** it, it will have made very little sense.

People are dying over there, and that is a terrible fact. Yet, those people are dying defending our wonderful freedom in a war that makes plenty of sense.

Surely I am not saying that I agree with every step that we have taken in the Middle-East, but overall I believe that steps were taken that needed to be taken.

If I was called to head out to war, I would do so with pride, knowing that I was fighting for our freedom and for a just cause!

No matter if we agree or disagree with the war, our president, whatever. We should all agree that those serving over there deserve our utmost respect and appreciation since our freedom, which we take for granted all too often, is priceless.

 

Ok...can someone please explain to me why you refer to troops protecting our "freedom"?!
freedom from what? from who???
where we under siege while I was sleeping?
did 9/11 make us prisoners?

Cos that's what "gaining our freedom back" means to me

 

Iraq has never been a threat to our freedom.

I have no problem with the soldiers, I just feel so terribly bad for them that they are being led by a guy who has them over there risking life and limb so that Bush's good buddies, the Saudis and Haliburton, can have free access to the Mid East oil.

 

No one ever mentioned (unless I missed it) "gaining our freedom back".

What I was simply saying is that those serving in Iraq are protecting our freedom. Freedom from terrorists/those that we are at war with. I believe that Saddam and his followers proposed (and still propose) a threat on our freedom and the fact that we can live our lives fearlessly. Fortunately, we live in a country where we only have to worry about occasional murderers and criminals (which is bad, don't get me wrong), whereas citizens in several of the Mid-Eastern countries worry about seemingly safe situations such as public transportation. Can you imagine living in a place where every car could have a bomb waiting to go off, or having over-the-top religeous groups planning acts of carnage that are completed nearly every week? We have it so good here in America, it's not really fair! Though it is a long shot, I feel that the war will provide Iraqis with some of the fearless freedom that we Americans are so blessed with.

Are we going to have to "gain our freedom back"? No, at least not anytime soon, but maybe we can grant freedom to those that were without it, to those that were oppressed by an evil leader.

 

C,

 

My bad, you wrote "defending our freedom" meaning that at one point or another it was "challenged" and now we are "taking it/gaining it back".

Anyway, I absolutely do not support this war, BUT I do admire how Americans moved on with their lives and continue to work/have fun and not live in utter fear. Way better response than those crap pieces of british police who shot dead cold an innocent man.

 

The Arkansas boy. Clinton.