"Joe" wrote...

A vietnam vet said it best.

He's a victim of Bush's propaganda.

" I have no regrets concerning our involvement in Iraq.
I would rather, MUCH rather, get the terrorists in thier own
neighborhoods than coming through my kitchen door.

Saddam had zip to do with 9/11. In fact he was the strongest bulwark against
the jahidists who did in the middle east. Toppling him is the equivalent of
having suddenly attacked Stalin whilst trying to get ready for the Normandy
invasion in WW2. Fact is we did the real anti-US terrorists a big favor by
invading Iraq.

I don't think the media is doing a good job of telling us what is really
happening in Iraq. They show us a crowd of a 100 people that are ****ed
about something, but they never show us the 900 people that are tickled to
death that we have set them free.....

Sure, free to join Iran and other radical Shiite radicals in their drive to
impose a Taliban-like government on the world.


How long should it take to "impose" freedom on a suppressed population?

Please understand that these people dispise what we call "freedom". They don't
want it and they don't want anybody else to have it. They believe Allah made
the law (Sharia) and the government should enforce it.

Should we help freedom to take root, ....

We would have to utterly destroy Islam to do that because Islam is the very
opposite of freedom. Muslims don't believe in free choice, they believe that
everybody must be governed by Islamic law.


Should we sit silently when we are outragiously attacked,

No! But we should punish the ones who attacked us, not Saddam! Guess what - bin
Ladin and company are still free and planning their next attacks! Why? Because
Blundering Bush diverted our military and intel resources to attack his personal
enemy and to find non-existant WMDs to justify his blunder. Worse yet, he
didn't provide enough troops to secure Saddam's weapons dumps so, in effect, he
handed them over to the real enemy - the enemy that perp'd 9/11 - and that enemy
is using those weapons to kill our kids right now.

Jeeze, what if some American had supplied Ho Chi Min with tons and tons of
weapons and explosives that Ho subsequently used to kill 1000s of Americans -
would you call that man a traitor?? I would. And yet that is exactly what Bush
has done regarding the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 and more. He toppled the
3rd biggest army in the world and left all its material to be picked up by these
terrorists and used to kill our sons and daughters. Hanoi Jane did nothing that
bad yet many Americans, including me, deem her a traitor.

should we stand up for our own rights and way of life?

How did toppling Saddam do that? How did handing Saddam's military equipment to
al Qaida do that? How is turning Iraq into another Iran doing that??

Personally, I am going to defend my way of life, even if that means
that I will be sending my own kids and my neighbor's kids into the line of
fire.

Then you should be doing your best to remove Bush from office then try him for
treason - and to bring our military and intel resources to bear on the jahidists
who perp'd 9/11 and are our real enemies!!