nobody wants to go to war(eg:iraq),but what if there's no choice?
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No. Iran's radical theocrats want a nuclear weapon. (It gnaws at them that Israel has nuclear weapons. It is Israel's nuclear weapons that have deterred attacks from her neighbors.) They have no legitimate need for nuclear energy. They have more than enough oil to cover their energy needs. They use the excuse of a "right" to nuclear technology to drum up support among Iranians for the government (which is otherwise disliked/hated by the majority of Iranians). \n\nIran is stalling for more time to strengthen their bargaining position. (They've done fairly well for themselves thus far. The talks have been ongoing for three years now.) So far they haven't overly miscalculated, but that doesn't mean the world's patience isn't wearing thin. What happens next is up to Iran. Russia and China won't be able to perpetually block meaningful efforts within the UN to address the problem.\n\nI don't think the US will attack Iran's nuclear facilities, but I wouldn't be surprised if Israel did so. Contrary to what many think, Israel will do what they feel is in their best interests whether or not the US condones it. What will the fallout be? Not much. There will be condemnations from Arab and Muslim governments, but the Iranians have two things against them. They aren't Arabs, and they aren't Sunnis.
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i don"t agree at all. That's just stupid decision for me. Why have to choose war for get some peace?\na state have to more concern about their people than their own interest!
662935
No war imposed from outside can give people the freedom in my personal view.  It is like someone giving you your livelihood...  it becomes a hand out, if you do not earn it.  It is okay to assist those who are fighting for freedom. If anyone truly deserves freedom, it is the poor palestinians who have been abused and kicked around for more than fifty years and we have a lot of clout to give them freedom, as we are active participants in TAKING AWAY their freedom, as we provide a lot of aid to Israel, some of which is used to take their freedom.  \n\nAnyone with half a brain knows that freedom for Iraqis is just a political ploy, an excuse to do the dirty work of Israel.  Plus, if Iraq did not have oil, we would let them die and rot like we do most  in several conflicts in Africa, Asia and elsewhere.  \n\nThat is my opinion on this issue.
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Nothing, US will not go to war with N. Korea.  It's military is much stronger than Iran and Iraq combined and there is nothing to gain in that land.  What I think the US will do is to negotiate and work closely with UN. If that doesn't work out, I strongly doubt we will go to war with N. Korea.
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It takes congress to officially declare war, but that doesn't seem to stop many presidents.  They send troops to an undeclared war whenever they feel like it.  My own feeling is that we should, as a government, stay out of foreign wars.  If individual American citizens feel strongly about a foreign war and want to go volunteer for service in a foreign army, they should have the right (assuming no war has been declared and they are on the other side).  But our own army should be purely defensive, and purely to defend our own country.  We have allies with whom we have made defense agreements, but I think that is ill-considered.  We should offer our allies material and technical help, and volunteers only.
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if a Third World War broke out and you don't go and fight for your country, you are branded a coward and put into prison for the duration of the war, You'd never be able to look at your own refection again, never mind your fiends, (who probably did go and fight, and spilt blood and shared the losses with the rest of us) You would be shunned by society for not fighting for the country in its hour of need Unless you are a Quaker (and you need evidence to back this claim up) or a Concenetious Objector, you would have to go and fight, if the Third World War did break out, I would gladly go and fight! As would be my duty to do so! If I was told to fight, I would gladly join the ranks of the British Army \n\nOur generation may have to, if things carry on the way they are going.\n\nI'll see you on the battlefield, comrade!!
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I feel that there are very few noble causes for war. If Iraq had done some sort of action against Americans, or if they did some sort of action against one of our allies then maybe. We went over there to make rich men richer. We are an occupying force in that country. If another country invaded us to make their rich men richer I would fight until i gave out my last dying breath. I'm sure this is what the Iraqis are thinking. I am not ready to enlist for this war. "Terror" is a braod term. by deffinition there are many American terrorists in America. Its a farce and false pre-tense for war. Iraq did not bomb the world trade center. There are many countries that have prro leaders. Are we going to bomb and occupy them all? Maybe if they had lots of money to loot. A noble war is the war on hunger. enough said.
562554
yes war is inevitable because every war in history was fueled by greed, and human flaws. and unless we get rid of human flaws, war is inevitable. and no
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I think we should do what that general suggests.  There has never been a war, in which a force that went and lived up to laws of morality, and the other side did not, and the first force, winning.  Sometimes, you just have to be cruel to win.  I think what this general says is a great idea (I know it sounds kind of sick)  Just kill the people that decide to ruin other's lives, I see no wrong in that.
224800
I agree. War never solved anything. I just can't understand those people who support the war, send their kids, and then blame it on Iraqis and Arabs if anything bad happened to them. Don't send them! Send Bush! If he wants the Oil so bad!
437532
War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.
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We wouldn't know what to do with ourselves! We have been at peace waaaaay to long. People seem to think that if we don't fight no one will fight us.  We're lucky it hasn't happened yet! Now as for helping the wounded... we all know that wouldn't happen. I mean how many people just stare at a bad car accident as they drive by.... and the Government well they would probably wage war and then the American people would forget about the tragedy and be pissed off about the war. Wait... doesn't that sound familiar.....
311580
No one wins a war- its a misconception
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Great question! I think we would have a whole lot less wars if the people making the decisions to fight, or their kids who weren't allowed to be in hiding in the National Guard, were forced to be in the fighting.  Therefore, I have to answer that they should be in the fight.  If you send someone in to die you should be willing to die too.
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I truly do not know how to answer this question in full. I, personally, am not particularly fond of war, and yet it is a fact that it happens. So, then, what to think and do about it?\n\nJust for example, it would appear that Allied retaliation to the Axis during World War II was justified war. Germany was attempting to take over Europe and parts of Eurasia and spread its hate-centered, anti-Jewish zeitgeist all over the place. It would seem to me that the desire to exterminate an entire people based upon their bloodline--i.e., the Jews in this case--is evil and should be stopped. While there were many other motives involved in that war--Germany's wish for power and resources--it was the anti-Semitism that was most abhorrent, and thereby justified cause for war.\n\nFast-forward to the modern-day war waged between the U.S. and Iraq. The declaration insists that this is about terrorism and tyranny.  But we all know that Hussein was not directly allied with Al-Qaeda, even if he had certain affections for them. That is, Iraq was not the cause for the attacks on the U.S. on 9/11/01...and yet many Americans were led to believe that it was. So the reasoning for the war got changed from anti-terrorism to pro-democracy...which is, in this one case, insufficient cause to go to war. Iraqis--many, at least--did not ask the U.S. for help in liberating itself, and so the U.S. is attempting to force its system of government onto a foreign land when many in that land are opposed to it. So the question of evil is confused here. If many Iraqis had been pleading for the U.S. to help them, that would be another story. If the U.S. just sees that others are oppressed, or whatever, and rides in on the white horses in an attempt to bring liberation, this seems unjustifiable.\n\nGood and evil are not in the eye of the beholder, I don't think. But I do think that "good" and "evil" are ill-defined for political purposes a lot of the time, and that many are led to believe certain others are evil so as a state-sponsored war can be waged...when the true motives for that war are undisclosed to the very people supporting it.\n\nBut to give a clear and simple answer to your bigger question, "What's to say what's good and what's evil?"...God is to say what is good and what is evil. It is just a question of whether the people waging and fighting war have sought God's will and guidance before engaging their military machines. And we all know that more naive minds can be manipulated into believing that a war is God's will when really it is the mere will of people who are seeking access to natural resources, strongholds in unstable regions, land, power, and glory.
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It makes perfect sense to take the war to the enemy, rather than let them bring it to us. Would you rather live in a country that cowers to the will of dictators and lives in constant fear of terrorists? I would consider that scarcely better than slavery.\n\n"In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Staying in Iraq won't bring those men, who have sacrificed their lives for a war that never should have happened, back. \n\nDespite NATO's investigations Bush started the war and has admitted , "'Oops, maybe it wasn't the right thing to do". \n\nIt's a simple fact, if you make a mistake...and don't correct it....you make another mistake.  I am not willing to sacrifice my sons blood or anyone else's life for a mistake. \n\nCome on ! Wake up ! This, what you call  "job" is a farce. How on earth can you justify killing innocent people on both sides? \n\nIt's not a matter of running away with our tail between the legs...it's a matter of finally waking up and looking the truth in it's face. Not one more innocent young man should die because of  our so called pride. \n\nWould you be willing to die for this war? Would you really? Then what are you waiting for? Go on over....good luck to ja pal.