If people don't like the war in Iraq, why don't they do something about it?? I would, I HATE war!!??
912633
You're not too young to speak your mind, you just did. You sound like a "cool kid".  When you get a little older, you can make a difference by becoming involved in the solution. I hate war too. (and I am muslim)
511527
so, before i say my bit, i am a Soldier... i enlisted in december 2001 a week after i turned 17.. that was 2 years before the iraq invasion started... i hate the war... i think the freedom of the country of iraq is not worth my blood or the blood of any other American.... those SOB's don't deserve my blood... they don't deserve the money we spend over there "liberating" them and they don't deserve freedom... i enlisted in the army, i learned how to speak arabic and i work in military intelligence and i've fought in iraq, afghanistan, and africa... and i'll do it again.... its not my place to think about whether the war is good or any of that crap... i'm a Soldier, a machine... i take orders and execute them with precision and without hesitation.. it makes me sad to see how many people i graduated with just have done nothing with their lives... they work at the mall or maybe at walmart and i'm pouring my blood out because my Commander in Chief has ordered me to do it... fine... i wish i was defending MY country... but anyway, our society is a bunch of Pu$$ies now... i don't know how it will change and i can only see it getting worse in the future... even the army these days is full of pu$$ies... people always complaining about "Equal Opportunity" cuz they didn't get the position they want... or the PT test is too tough for females so they lower the standard for themm.... all BS... Toughen Up!!
641963
You know, so many people criticize Bush because the war in Iraq hasn't been as successful as he thought. You have to remember, he DID NOT act alone!. His entire cabinet agreed that this move would deter terrorism. I mean, they did just crash jet planes into the Pentagon and The World Trade Towers! What if it was you in the position to make an immediate decision? People are so critical because they've had years to think about alternatives. He didn't. He had to make an immediate impact. Also, America is pissed off because so many soldiers have lost they're lives.....THEY'RE IN THE F*CK#NG MILITARY! When they inlist, they are agreeing to fight for our country in a situation just..like..this! If you don't want to go to war, don't go into the military! If you're the parent of a soldier, just suck it up and realize that your child might just die defending this country. I'm sick to death with the criticism of G.W.B. Let's see you do better!
54458
Its not just about money, some just want the status quo to continue, others want to see change happen for safety reasons.  Overall, people are just scared no matter what and war usually makes people think about their own mortality and how precious life can be.  Then there are those that believe in standing up and supporting the country that gave them freedoms that otherwise they wouldn't enjoy elsewhere.  I was anti-war while in high school but I ended up joining the Army and spent the best 5.5 years in my life.  I would do it again if I could.  But I learned also that those that have been to war, don't want it to happen again but they realize that sometimes war is the only answer, talking doesn't always solve it.
717734
It's not because they are against the war.  It's because they went to other countries and talked bad about America.  It's sort of like how you can pick on your brother or sister, but if anyone else does you kick their a**.  They shouldn't have gone to other places and bad-mouthed the country.  Sure, they are entitled to their opinion, but if I'm paying to see them (which I won't) I don't want to hear their political views.  And, who really cares what they think anyhow???
280843
People tend to fear what they don't understand. Personally, I believe it is fear that is manifesting itself rather than hate.\n\nThat doesn't justify their actions which are often times displayed by hateful acts. Most have never seen our benevolent side. \n\nWith the onslaught of natural disasters, many of these people have witnessed first hand how quickly we, as a nation, have responded to their peril. \n\nI have read accounts of how these people were absolutely shocked that we would respond faster and with more resouces than their own government. They had previously thought we were a selfish nation... taking things that don't belong to us... forcing other to conform to our vision for their lives... They fear that they might become our next victim.\n\nThe answer is not Iraq as suggested above. There are way too many people here on Yahoo answers that want to be the first to answer a question and give no regard to it's accuracy. Their misinformation is a blithe on an otherwise great site. You deserve an answer not an opinion that isn't even backed up with the flemsiest of evidence. \n\nPardon my distain. Back to the topic...\n\nYour anticipated response would be, what can we do about it? How do we let them know that we want them to be happy, prosperous and free to enjoy life under their own terms? Well, there's not much an individual can accomplish on an international scale. \n\nTrue, there are some amazing people that have a calling it would appear and these people have proven how much good or bad one person can accomplish internationally. As for you and me, we need to take the time to examine our leaders. We need to look beyond party lines and select officials that represent our country for what it really is. A melting pot of ideas and people. A place where their way of life is acceptable as long as it doesn't infringe on another person's way of life. A nation that loves it's soldiers and can hardly bear the thought of placing them in harms way. And if we do send them into battle, there is no reasonable doubt that they are dying for a worthy cause. A cause that is international in scope rather than that of the privileged few that seem to have far too much control.\n\nWe must calm their fears.
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I wish people would stop being over dramatic, and here's why:\n\nFirst it only increases the polarization in Washington, which we have too much now anyway.\n\nSecond it makes people think that there isn't a valid argument against the war, which there really is.\n\nThird it make you sound unintelligent. The truth is never cut in dry and when we try to make it that way we are fools.
740997
I happen to know firsthand {I adopted a soldier in Iraq} that the soldiers hate the media because they are biased. The soldiers say they don't report about all the good they are doing over there. They only report the bad. They all want the media to leave Iraq. They hate them.
1070689
people around the world hate the united states because of its one-sided foreign policies. in iraq, bush and blair have already said that the war was a mistake. there was no weapons of mass destruction (which was the basis for the war) so it was a false declaration by bush and he lied and manipulated his allies to attack iraq. now why would civilized people listen to a ridiculus call to war? iraq is an oil rich country. i wont be surprised if the americans and british have started drilling oil in iraq. of course they wont tell you that. anyway the war was called 'OIL' for 'operation iraqi liberation'. first of all, the reason for war (weapons of mass destruction) is a false claim and the evil saddam has been captured so why in the world is the US still in iraq? that makes people angry. the scandal at abu ghraib prison makes people angry. the deaths of civilians makes people angry. the continual insurgency shows that iraqi people DO NOT want americans there. and therefore, the general frustration with a superpower that has infringed human rights and is acting like a superior bully over helpless civilians makes people angry.\nanother case, israel. many people can't stand the backing of the US towards atrocities caused by the israelies towards the palestinians. i am not arab and i do not relate to the palestinians but am i the only one to see the similarities of the jewish holocaust by hitler and the current palestinian holocaust by lets see...israel, the US and every other country that remains silent. that is why people hate the US. i am sure palestinians have caused atrocities as well but we all know that more palestinian civilians die for every israeli. and there is no justice. that is why people hate the US and its claim that israel has a 'right to defend herself' and so i say the palestinians have a right to defend themselves.\nanother issue is iran. people hate the US because it is unfair in its foreign dealings. the US deals with whoever they seem to like and not others. thats ok, but sabotaging the sovreinity  of other countries and making assumptions about them is wrong. well iran has said it hates israel n israel says it hates palestinians so its a cycle. u cant say that iran has no right to hate israel just as israel is allowed to despise and 'accidentally' slaughter palestinians. george bush's blindness to the truth is frankly frustrating. sometimes i think that if i ever got my hands on him, i'd spend a whole lifetime educating that guy. there is someone pulling his strings. the US might apparently be the most powerful nation in the world but someone else is pulling the strings of the puppet president bush.\nyou should read this book 'the protocols of the elders of zion' it will give an insight into a different world for you.\ni am not against the jewish people but against corrupt politicians who are doing things wrongly. that is why i hate bush. not the american people, not liberal jews, but the reigning one-sided political situation prevalent in this increasingly ignorant and uncivilized world.
1156101
I think you have a grasp on the situation in Iraq, we do have no business there in the first place and in all wars innocents are killed. Americans for the most part have no idea what war does to a country and its people because we have had none here since 1860. The death, the destruction that we have caused Iraq in the name of democracy is just wrong. I know that Saddam was not a  cool dude but we cannot and should not try to right every wrong through out the world. It just isn't possible.
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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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maybe those some "combative people" hates what the U.S is doing in Iraq and Afganistan from killing, raping, torturing prisoners, recently hunting children, ....... etc....\n\n\nNEWTON'S third law\n\n"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
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Oh dear, you are stooping low, particulary on the 90th annivesery of the Battle of the Somme where nearly half a million of my countrymen died in one battle.\n\nWhen are you going to get it through your head that no-one is simply a "war supporter" apart from a very few mad people. That doesnt mean however that we all think like you do and should cut and run leaving the Iraqis to their fate. A fate which we created.\n\nHow can you live in such a black and white world where you have to wear a label of War Supporter or Peace Protester?\n\nWhy not have "intelligent debater" and then you may learn, and contribute something.  \n\nStop the name calling and come up with something constructive for a change.
900040
Where is the support for your "facts"?  My brother has been there and has seen his friends die and has seen the people of Iraq.  He had the citizens come to him and thank him for what he was there too do.  Ask any one who has served and met the REAL people of that country.  They do like what we are doing there.  It is the radicals who are fighting against us that don't want us there.  These are the people who would rule by terror.  Get your "facts" straight and serve in the military yourself before you start criticizing what is goin on.
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I do not support the Iraqi war.  I DO support our troops who are over the fighting it the though.  After all, they're not the one who started it.  Bush did. However, I also believe that, even though we never should have gone to war (at least not when we did) that we need to stay and finish what we started.
194479
NO. I have friends and family who are in Iraq in the military and my father in law just got back from Iraq as a civilian bomb dog handler. Each of them has told me how saddened and sickened they are by the media portrayal of only negative things from the war. Each of them has told me about how they can see positive changes in Iraq and how much better the living conditions are over there now and how they have started schools and brought order back in many places. I don't think that is a waste of time. It is hard for us who have people we love over there and I am sure we would like to see them all come home safely and not have to be at war -- but the efforts made my our troops in Iraq are not a waste of time.
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I honestly think the Military have been too patient for too long. Glad Im not Prime Minister as I would have levelled the place long ago.\n\nI realise war is not fair but the Iraqi people play upon our humanity very unfairly. We have been trying to help them against their own government/leaders and give them the freedom, education, rights, basics and respect that any human deserves and they repay our soldiers/troops with women and children acting as innocent civillians with bombs strapped to their chests and suicide bomb us. Thats just total bullsh*t! Those people are nothing but savages. Its not worth risking our troops lives for them.\n\nI would have either given all the Iraqi, Iranian, Afghanistan and any other nutty Muslim based country heaps of guns and ammunition and let them shoot themselves to death till theres only one left standing and go in and put that one out of its misery or just press the button that levels the area altogether.\n\nWhat a complete waste of time, money and human life this war has caused us (our Government, our troops, our families and our loss of loved ones!)