What exactly do you think of this war that is going on?
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Well mochita, I believe that we have a war on our hands. As we have painfully come to learn is that one of the greatest weapons to use in a war against an opposing country is to attack its economy, and further to destabilize the fabric of its society.\nThese concerns for international security are the prime motives for the war in Iraq.\nIf we may only try to remember that Iraq's, or rather Saddam Hussein's intentions when he decided to invade Kuwait was for the reason of controlling the export and price of oil through its seaports.\nAlso a main reason for Saddam's decision is Kuwaits geographical location from where Saddam intended to intercept any trade that would issue through this waterway, and I believe it is the mouth of the Red Sea; however, if I am in error please advise me.\nIn my opinion the crisis that our economy is causing for our country are tactics of multiplier effects.\nWe have to conserve our trade routes and partners and this has already cost us billions.\nAdd to that the loss of human life of our loved ones cannot be ignored.\nI could go on forever laying out the reasons for the cause of this war and why my approval of such a war; I however am a much older and more experienced person than many of our citizens and who has learned to try to see and not to only look.\nDo not become angry or spiteful because we are at war. Just try to keep up with as much reliable information that you can and thusly continue to learn under a good shade.  Jose
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I think it is fairly obvious that there is a battle raging and it is for the minds of humanity. I think it was Winston Churchill who said that there was a great purpose being worked out here below. All these expereinces and happenings are not just some sort of blind chance happenings. Like every thing else........time will tell.
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War is always dangerous and unpredictable.  It cannot be done in a clinical sanitized way.  Oh sure we're getting better at it all the time but war is always messy and hard to control even with all our techno gadgets.\n\nThe problem isn't that we were mislead about the exact duration of this specific war, the problem is that we are constantly being misled about the nature of war in general.  (ie - it is foolish to strongly believe any predictions about war)\n\nWar is not a reality game show, though it is often packaged like one.  Its a serious business with very real consequences for both sides no matter who is declared the victor.  \n\nActually in war nobody wins and I think that most military minds know that at some level but aren't prepared to let the general public know.  The absolute best we can hope for is to create a situation where things don't get worse.  (ie war can never make things better it can only limit further damage, sometimes)\n\nIts too late and pointless to debate if we should have been there to begin with.  The exit strategy?  Well, only someone who really knows what is going on can make that call and its not me.  \n\nDoes anybody really know what is going on there?
607951
the oil is just a cover up , as well as the deomocracy for Iraq, its a lie, if you read the Bible there will be a battle called the "battel of armagedon", and it will take place in the cradle of life (thats where iraq is) so its gonna be awhile and it will be a battle between great nations, who knows! maybe they might be fighting for the oil!
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It's true, it's DAMN true. You can fight for peace, but only if there is no peace to begin with. If they were fighting in Danfur to get rid of the Janjaweed, then I'd think to consider it fighting for peace. But this war, I don't agree with.\n\nEDIT:\nIt's a shame that so many people (including Turbowedgie) want to compare this to the Great War. Let's use realistic lingo, such as "Don't you think we would have won Nam if it hadn't been for those un-American jackasses that wanted us out? What's another life or two? Just keep on napalmin' and they'd surrender, eventually."
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OK here it is the fight day. Bush vs who? a hand picked man 6`10 kills bush in 2sec. Your so happy. Now get out of your home and on the streets the cops roll in under the new government you no longer own your home. Get in line here and walk into the showers the gas will be on in a sec and you die.\n\nWe are in a fight for our way of life. We fight because we are free and if we let them their boot will be on our kids necks. We have been fighting this same war for over 1000 years. The war to stop Islam. In 1300 up to the late 1600 were they were stopped . The army's of Islam all most over ran Europe. they want to start it up again. We are in WW3 now fighting killing on each point of the earth.
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I truly think that the war is very violent and there is no reason for any of it.What happen to peace and thy shall not kill.So many people died in Iraq and what was the real purpose of the invasion in Iraq.May god forgive all those who were in Iraq and for all the Innocent people that were killed do to the stupidity of people that think the war is always the solution.
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I say it's a civil war. In my view its a religious war that has been going since the birth of Cain and Abel. We cannot solve it and will never solve it until Christ returns. Blood will be shed and peace will not come in that place. May God be with us all.
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what i would have to say coming from one who is over here right now is the media doesnt want any one to know all the good that we are doing over here because the media precives war as bad. something the american people dont want to see no matter how well the troops are doing. they think the american public wants to think that the war is going horrible even if we are doing more good then bad. like how many reports are there of a sucessful mission as opposed to the deaths that happen. i think its just cause a few people want to see the bad to justify there unpatriotic acts.\nthats all i have to say on that.
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No.  That much is obvious at this point.  It will be a war in the end, I fear, The majority will win but it will be a bloodbath with many innocents losing their lives in the process.
272599
The war has gone for the bad.  I can not believe that you are asking this.  The soldiers disserted out of fear.  With all the hate there is back there, with every face turning in disgust, it is no wonder that they did.  You, at any  moment, could be hit with a car bomb or a sucide bomber.  It is crazy and should be stopped.  The war is no longer neccesary.  It may have been at one point, but no longer.
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I thing we are already into the World War-III which is going on slowly engulfing more and more people, more and more nation in to it. This is solwer than the other two in spark but much much more hazardous in effect.You count the death tolls, thousands of people are being killed worldwide every year and this figure is increasing every year.\nThis WW is not centralised or polarised but is decentralised and spread out having its presence in each and every nation on the globe. This war is using the worst weapon which not only kills Human but the Humanity as well. \nWe are Killing and We are Dying.....
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Yes, it's a war.  You really want to know how and why it began?  Okay, here's a history lesson:\n Many people say it was President Bush who started this war, or that he's continuing his father's work. What started Desert Storm? Iraq invaded Kuwait, a U.S. ally. Kuwait in turn begged the UN for some help in eradicating the threat. The U.S. answered the call. When we pulled out, it was under the condition that Hussein would submit to occasional inspections to be sure that he did not have nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons capabilities. For a little over a decade, we were officially at a stasis. Unofficially though, we were firing on Iraq the whole time. Most of it was retaliation, for Iraqi approved attacks on Americans, or for the mass genocide we were well aware of. Some of it was to rid Iraq of Hussein, for both horrific acts. \nThen September 11th happened, and our policy had to change. The CIA (and other InterPol agencies that I can't recall right now) began receiving intelligence reports of suspicious activity in the Middle East, namely in Iraq. As a result, Hussein was warned that the UN needed to inspect for WMD's. He refused to let them in, and he threatened to retaliate if they tried. Before I continue, why would he do that? Think about it. Moving on. President Bush gave Hussein an ultimatum: "Let them in, or we attack!" Hussein said, yeah right, believe it when I see it. President Bush said, okay, if that's the way you want it...and he went to Congress and asked for their approval to attack Iraq. Once Congress was given the evidence, they voted with an overwhelming majority to go ahead with the attack. Then Bush went to the UN, and asked for their unity in order to rid the world of what was deemed a huge threat. Of course, they refused, all except Great Britain.\nSix weeks after the first inspection was refused, we attacked. SIX WEEKS. If Saddam had something to hide, is six weeks long enough to do so?\nGoing back just a little. The attack on Iraq had already been approved by the Clinton administration. Let me repeat that: ALREADY APPROVED, before Bush. President Bush asking Congress for approval on something they had already passed was only a formality, which he did not have to do.\nOkay, so what's the current situation in Iraq? No one knows, except those that are there. Again, NO ONE KNOWS!  I am a military spouse, so we have friends that are there now, and who have already served in the past couple of years. Some say it's awful, others say we're doing good. How do the Iraqis feel? Well, how many voted in their election? Their first REAL election in over twenty years. If the Iraqis were truly against us, wouldn't they be attacking U.S. soldiers? Not the insurgents, but regular Iraqi citizens?  Wouldn't more be aiding the insurgents? The fact that Iraqis are turning in the insurgents, saving many lives, says something doesn't it? \nOkay, as for the claim that this war is all about oil, it's half-right. Yes, it really is about oil...but not in the way that the people who make that claim think. I've had reports from people in Iraq that Saddam lived in opulence you can't even imagine. Gold and marble and ivory everywhere, 20 room palaces (note, I said PALACES, plural. He had several.)...meanwhile, down the road, maybe a mile away, there was a ten person family living in a one room shack. In absolute and total squalor. The U.S.'s homeless live a lot better, trust me. Hussein was starving his own people, making them go without electricity...and using the money from the oil to build his palaces. Yeah, that's fair. Sure. So we go in, and we seize the oil factories to turn over to the emerging Iraqi government. The Army is working to rebuild schools that have been damaged (many were damaged WAY before the U.S. occupied the country), repairing power lines, restoring clean drinking water...\nSo there you go.  Now you know.  I don't beli
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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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More and more Americans are staring to agree with you on this. It is a terrible situation. Some soldiers say that they've had enough. However, there are those who've only just begun over there, and they feel like: Would you run into a burning building to save lives and then leave everyone to burn? I think at this point we are damned if we do, and damned if we don't
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OMG \nFIRST it is no longer a "war". We are protecting the country from insurgents that are trying to take it over and/or trying to cause civil disruption. Peace keeping is what its called.  If it was War we would know exactly who our enemy is. \n\nSecond: We need to stay there untiil Iraq can protect itself. \nTheir government needs to work, the police need to work, the military needs to work, and there has to be enough economic infrastructure to keep it going.
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I really appreciate your sentiment for it is what we were all brought up to believe is good about this country.  But may  I suggest that this is not a war.  It is an occupation by the United States of another country.  We were told that the people of Iraq were being held in oppression by the horrible dictator Saddam Hussein, and that they would be throwing flowers at our troops for setting them free, we would be welcomed with open arms.  Why do you suppose we have had to stay for three years, fighting door to door with citizens who desperately wanted us to enter their country and set them free?  If our policy was so concerned about their human rights, why are they fighting us to the death?  I offer this thought for discussion, for it sounds to me like we were not told the truth about what we are doing there, and the Iraqi people have made it very clear with the sacrifice of the own blood, that they do not like what we are doing?  If we were oppressed by a dictator and someone came in to set us free out of the goodness of their heart, would we fight them door to door for doing so?  I think not.