did we really need this war against you know who?
91069
No way. It was Bush's way of diverting the american public's attention from more important issues, PLUS, it was a great way for him to make some extra money. \n\nTerrorism is a threat only if you let it be. Wake up, it's all make-believe.
655589
we need the military in the foreig countries killing people, because we have enough civilians killing each other right here at home...\n\nwe are on a path of self-destruction
631784
Back in the seventeen hundreds we were being bled dry by England. Was war a bad idea ?\n  In the eighteen hundreds half of our country wanted to break away and form a country of their own .Was war a bad idea to keep the country together ?\n  Wars aren't fought just people enjoy killing each other.
398049
YES! Why should people have to fight a war that they don't believe in, when really there doesn't need to be a war at all?
767731
There was no need for the Civil War, because in the end we were fighting ourselves. Our brothers in arms. The North and South were no different than each other, and they were just people with the same idea, but with different course of actions. It was the lack of leadership that caused the civil war. Something could have been worked out, as it says in the quote."it was the result of extremism and failures of leadership on both sides." Just means that everyone on both sides was so stuck up in their own ideas and were narrow minded to the other side, thinking they were the only one that was right. If they sat down and tried to compromise. Thats a big word in politics, COMPROMISE, the civil war would never have happened. \n\nLeadership is not on the ability to lead during crisis, its the ability to follow and have the ability to compromise as well. A good leader is a good follower and listener, and able to maintain his people in times of hardship and peace.
732335
We probably wouldn't defend them, but we would take their side in the dispute, and give them military equipment.  But as for joining the fight, no.
97016
I think it was not necessary, but hard for me to say that when U.S. Marines have over 45,000 causalties on Iwa Jima and Okinawa ALONE!  That is 20 times the amount of men and women lost in Iraq, and that is just 4-5 months of battle!\n\nThere were several reasons NOT to drop the bomb.  But President Truman did not want to have 100,000 to 1,000,000 causulaties taking the home islands of Japan, and he felt the need to establish American dominance in the Pacific, so that it did not go to the Russians, like Europe had already started to.\n\nThe Japanese may have surrendered to the USA and Allies without it, but they wanted to put conditions on the surrender.  We demanded u=nconditional surrender and nothing less.  This was a big reason for forcing them to surrender our way. \n\nMany scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project, including Openheimer and Einstein, wanted to detonate the Bomb on an unihabitied island to show Japan what it would do, and then ask them to surrender then.  \n\nThe Japanese military committed more warcrimes and atrocities than the Nazis.  The killed almost as many people, and save the holocaust, which I do not want to diminish in ANY WAY, Japan was involved in rape of Nanking, the Baatan Death March, and the murder and rape of MILLIONS of civilians and thousands of POWs.  One of Doolittles Raiders that was shot down over Tokyo(reference movie Pearl Harbor), was murdered in front of the public by a Japanese General and the General ATE HIS LIVER in front of the crowd!!!  He was hung after the war, but how bad to you have to be to EAT your enemy!??!\n\nMercy may not have been high in the mind of our nation's and allied nation's leaders when it came time to (paraphrase the Gap Band) "Drop the Bomb".
1127212
No, not at all. \n\nAs early as summer of 2000, I was taking bets on when --- not if, when --- GWB would get us involved in a mid-east war (provided he secured the presidency, of course). Giving the military to George W Bush was like giving a hammer to a three year old. Suddenly everything looks like a nail.\n\nThere were so many other options available this evil man chose to ignore those other options in his rush to war. He has deliberately and dishonorably sacrificed the lives of our sons and daughters to his pride and ambition.
683197
Unfortunately War is a necessary evil. It sucks, and no one wants to go through it. Well let me re-phrase that, normal people don't want to go through it. But that is why it is at times necessary, not everyone is normal. Occasionally you get a bad guy or group who wants to dominate people by fear and torture. These are not reasonable people, and therefore are not reasoned with by peace or the nicer ways to negotiate, they see peace as a weakness, and try to use it as a way to overcome the peaceful. Anyone who thinks peace is the only way is right (in a perfect world). We don't live in a perfect world so at times war is the only way to get rid of the bad people. Yes war also means death to innocent people and harm and danger to the good forces who fight for the pure cause. Well it is either that or everyone around the world die and suffer under tyrannical groups/rule. The US and Allied military forces understand this concept now more than ever, and they are willing to put their lives on the line to fight for the citizen's of the World freedoms and liberties, which is the desired result of the War on Terror (which does include Iraq, whether anyone wants to admit it, the past regime was a regime which supported and committed terrorist activities on it's own people and the rest of the world). I know War sucks; peace is always the more desired path. But go tell that to the terrorists and see how long you stand alive in their presence.
1047713
We basically said, we don't need you -- we'll invade on our own without the support of the international community.
12163
For misleading us into war, yes.\nFor lying to Congress about the Medicare bill, maybe.\nFor breaking the law regulating spying on Americans, certainly.
1103616
Ironically enough, we should continue with the war now, for the same exact reason we had for ending the war without taking out Saddam Hussein during Operation Desert Storm. It would create a power vaccuum in the country destabilizing the entire region, because every surrounding nation, and every billionaire sheik with delusions of grandeur would make a play to rule a country without a solid government and a means to defend itself. If we were to leave now, the entire region would be thrown into utter chaos. I'm a Marine. I am NOT pro war. But I do support the war. There is a difference. There are hard decisions to be made. And one of those hard decisions is to finish what we start. No matter how unpleasant it may be. And yes, "unpleasant" may well be the understatement of the century. But it is what it is. And we can't just up and leave millions of people ungoverned and undefended, no matter how badly terrorist organizations would like us too. And here's another thing to chew on. Terrorist organizations the world over are throwing resources and manpower at us in Iraq. This is true. But really, isn't it better for the U.S. to wage the war there, rather than on the streets of New York, or Chicago, or Charlotte?\n\nI will pray for the souls of those we lost so horribly, and for their families who have to live with the loss. I ask anyone who reads this post to take a few seconds of your day, to pray to your God as well.
1154427
Nope.... to much fighting.... and thats not including war :-P\n\nNo matter what you do someones gonna hate you... I couldn't live with that.\n\n\n------------------------------------------------
609045
i agree but don't be so cynical yet don't forget that we had an empire and what do you think we did when we got there?\nbut you're right who is going to protect us and be PC correct?
602358
Illegal war or not, we have made a mess and we need to help clean it up and finish the job. There are people over there who need to be protected so that they can form a just and fair government of their choosing and to have a chance at a better life. \n\nShould we have gone in in the first place? maybe not. Where we lied to? It looks like it. Was Hussein a direct threat to us? That is debatable. Irregardless, we went in, screwed up the occupation and rebuilding and underestimated the opposition. We now have to fix it as best we can. It is like if I went into your neighborhood and spilled a load of toxic trash all over. If there is no one capable of cleaning it up, I should. I should not leave the mess for you to deal with.
570612
We used too...\n\nBut since then, there's been a war, wiretapping, straightout lying...
779085
No Nuke was needed or ever will be needed.\nWhat was needed was the guts and the balls to officially declare\nwar on those buggers, instead of sending thousands of our young to be maimed for life, die, then discrasse them when they did not come home in a body bag.