4000

[Chopper]

It's over 7,000 dead if you choose to remember the 3,000 civilians killed by the MoFo cowards at the WTC.

Wrong war

[JHarris1385]

To those that 100% oppose that war.....do not read, do not listen and do not care to know the facts.....

Advice: grow some common sense..... And then and maybe just then we can have a political debate on an Isuzu VehiCROSS forum....

[tom4bren]

"To those that 100% oppose that war.....do not read, do not listen and do not care to know the facts....."

Agreed.

Our justification for going in may have been based on intelligence that was eventually proven wrong (WMDs). Saddam took perverse pride in admitting that he duped the US into believing that he had massive quantities of them. He just used them up before we got there.

We may not have efficiently trained the Iraq military to take over soon enough.

We should be using Iraq profits from their oil to pay for the rebuilding (of course that in itself would be a dam if you do ... dam if you don't proposition).

The place is a terrorism hot bed and the guy was a monster so I think the war was justified. We should have gone in sooner to stop most of the genocide.

[Mark B]

I saw that in the paper this morning.
How many permanently injured?
When is this war going to stop?

[nfpgasmask]

And don't forget about the countless animals, and all the environmental destruction and pollution the war has caused. They barely ever talk about these things...

Bart

[Joe_Black]

We've got enough problems at home to worry about fixing those outside our borders. The US should adopt an isolationist policy more extreme than that which we enjoyed prior to WWII and focus our energies internally, utilizing the military to secure our borders and coastlines. Once our economy and military stays here you'll see a radical shift in anti-US sentiment.

Will it happen? Will ANY change happen? Maybe after the next Revolution.

[tomdietrying]

Here's a way to stop the Iraq war. Have a draft. If everyone has a chance, other than volunteering, to go to this great war, it will end pretty quickly.

If you support the war, that's your right. If you volunteered, I respect that a lot. That means you talk the talk and walk the walk. I just ask that you don't talk all this smack and have someone else have all the fun. Go volunteer.....don't be like my cousin who was 22 when Iraq started. He talked all kinds of smack, but when asked why not go and do his part he would sheepishly say he was doing his part with his part time job. Or don't be like a buddy of mine who talked a lot of smack when his son was 12. Now that he's 17, I asked him if he was talking to his son about going to Iraq. He also said sheepishly my son makes his own decision. I reminded him that as a parent he should guide his son to make that decision. He looked away and said he had not and will not do that.

Peace.
Tom
012009

[cyronman]

We've got enough problems at home to worry about fixing those outside our borders. The US should adopt an isolationist policy more extreme than that which we enjoyed prior to WWII and focus our energies internally, utilizing the military to secure our borders and coastlines. Once our economy and military stays here you'll see a radical shift in anti-US sentiment.

Will it happen? Will ANY change happen? Maybe after the next Revolution.

Joe,

IMO you hit it right on the head.
As a veteran of OIF 2 & 3, I'm tired of people (other vets) standing ground for "all the good we've accomplished for Iraqi civilians" i.e. building schools/organizing soccer leagues for their children/repairing power plants, roads, hospitals, irrigation equipment, etc...
I'm not saying that's not awfully thoughtful of us, but it's all just a show--
why can't we do that here on our own turf?

Cy

[BuxGuy]

Wrong war

Right war, right time, right cause.

Oh, and look, not another single attack on American soil in 5 years.