What about this war? do you like it? why or why not?
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Officially, we aren't at war.  Only Congress can declare war.  AND war can only be declared against a nation with boundaries.\nThis war on terror is about as lame as the war on poverty and the war on drugs back in the 80's.\n\nI hate the fact that friends of mine have been killed defending a foreign policy that will only keep us embedded in turmoil for years.  It discusts me!
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.
528444
It was a good movie.    The movie was done well.  There was more too it than just another war movie.  It mixed in romance, drama, and action all into one movie. \n  I an not one who watches love stories especially if it is suppose to be about one of the things that took us into WWII.  But I do agree with you.
537081
That war question is a hard one to answer. I am glad that those brave soldiers out there fought for my freedom in my country. And if someone invaded your country and wanted to take away your freedoms what would you think? I hate war and I hate innocent people dieing but there is evil out there and we need to protect what is ours
957192
While I believe we are undermanned, I don't think of the Iraq war as a question of nationality.  This is a crooked war and we all know it.  I can speak for many by saying I am not eager to die for a war I don't believe in.
1017539
No war is not a good thing, and anyone who thinks so should enlist instead of watching for updates on 'their side' on CNN.\n\nThere is never a good enough reason to kill innocents and you can't avoid killing innocent people in a war, no matter how hard you try.\n\nI truly hope, and my hope may be foolish that we'll one day see a time without war, without the world having to come to an end.
1143001
To early to tell who will fill the vacuum, but I'm ecstatic. One more monster dead, let our troops keep going and finish this war.  Way to go guys!\n\nWoo hoo!!!
557849
there has to be war sometime. but i do not like it at all. i think that we can settle things with communication and agreement. i think that the war in iraq is because the president is not thinking about how to solve it without war. he says he is a christian but we do not believe in violence. \n                          -peace child
623477
In no way war is life.We should take all the available step to avoid any sort of war.b'cozwar is cause of immense destruction.But when war becomes inevitable then we should not  take a back seat and come up to protect our right.
713965
As a disabled veterans who has been in the gulf, my feeling is we already lost the war. I am angry because we should have never been there in the first place. Now my fellow soldiers are caught in a civil war that puts them in the middle of their fighting.\n\nTheir were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded. This invasion created a base of extremists that joined the Al Qaida group to fight our soldiers.  \n\nThis war is not winable! It's a guerrilla war, something our soldiers are not trained to fight!
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People may disagree but here goes, it cost far too much, too many lives have been lost and what really annoys me is that there are doubts surrounding the decision to go to war in the first place?\n\nWeapons of mass destruction we were told, where are they???\n\nSomeone else made a good comment which was, while I also hate saddam for what he has done and welcome his death sentence, there were fewer deaths under his regime than under our so called care?\n\nWe need to get out and let the Iraq people get on with their lives. Obviously we are not welcome there so why are all our troops still dying??\n\nFinally, this war has come down to one man who should he not have gained power we would never have hone to war.\n\nBUSH\n\nNot forgetting the sheep that followed his every move, good old Mr Blair!!\n\nShould never have happened and this topic will continue to be discussed far into the future.
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I haven't seen it and don't really know if I have an interest in it.\n\nI think it is basically a telling of the "popular" version of what happened and I have seen Loose Change.\n\nWhen you start asking questions about "what is the most currenty information we have about the attack?", you really have to define who WE are. I think not everyone who really knows what happened is dead.\n\nIt's good to ask questions, even if it's dangerous. History takes a long time to let the truth slip.
223332
Which war are you referring to. If you want an answer, you have to give more information. Click the Add Details link and explain what you are asking.
176108
The main reson to oppose WWI...\nIt's over.\n\nReally, specify which side your interested in...\n\nThe whole war or just US involvement, etc?
492517
I would defend this country with the last drop of my blood. If it were up to me I would still be in the military helping to keep this country safe.\n\nLove it or hate it, this country of ours is still hands down the best on the planet. We have freedoms that most people around the world have only heard of. We have so many advantages that people take for granted, it is amazing.\n\nI love our country!!
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(m)\n\nThe historical view: By Allan Little\n\n \n\nGet ready to be shocked. Prepare yourself to be awestruck. For shock and awe are what the United States military say they hope to achieve in the opening minutes of the coming campaign against Iraq.\n\nIt will – if it goes to plan – be a war like none the world has ever seen. Washington is about to test drive the early prototype model of a military juggernaut that will be so powerful that it will eventually make any talk of ‘military balance’ redundant, even laughable.\n\n\nIn Washington, where the talk is all of “power projection”, a new ideological conviction is taking shape. It is being driven by technological advance. Technology, increasingly, is shaping what America can do, how America defines itself, and how it engages with the rest of us by providing the means to impose its will through sheer force of arms anywhere in the world where it feels US interests are threatened. \n\n\nThe sheer scale of American supremacy is written in the numbers: the US military is larger than the next ten national forces combined. Its annual budget is 400 billion dollars. It has five hundred bases. And still this is not enough. The Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is planning such sweeping changes in the military that they amount not to radical reform, not even to a revolution – but to transformation. \n\n\n“What we’ve got now is a kind of third age of the American military,” says Michael Clark, “a globalised military that can now do pretty much anything it wants. And we’re also seeing the development of a political ideology which backs up that military dominance. And that’s a pretty uncomfortable situation for the rest of us to be in. For the rest of the world it’s rather like being in a bath with an elephant – no matter how sensitive the elephant tries to be, the rest of us in the bathtub are going to feel pretty uncomfortable.”\n\n\nWashington’s current impatience with its reluctant allies emerged first in the seventy-eight day air campaign NATO fought in Kosovo four years ago. Many of the allies were squeamish to begin with about going to war at all. France intervened to impose political restrictions on what the military could do, to declare some targets – not matter how militarily legitimate – politically unacceptable. Many senior US generals came away from that experience feeling bruised. General Mike Short, who commanded the air campaign from Italy, told me “I never fought a war by committee before – I don’t want to have to do it ever again’. \n\n\nThe talk now shifted from formal coalitions of partners bound by Treaty, towards informal short lived partnerships of expediency – so-called ‘coalitions of the willing’. \n\n\nThat impulse toward unilateralism only reflects what is happening technologically. America is entering a new age of hi tech weaponry – of precision bombing, of lazar guided missiles, of aircraft dropping bombs in the Gulf, while the pilot sits a thousand miles away or more – possibly even in the Pentagon and going home to his wife and kids in a Washington suburb at the end of his day’s remote controlled combat. \n\n\nI asked a US Air Force General about the transforming power of pilot-less aircraft. And it brought me a swift ticking off. “They won’t be pilot-less. They’ll have a pilot. He just won’t be in the plane”.\n\n\n“The accuracy with which modern aircraft can attack their targets is astonishing”, says the military historian John Keegan. “They can at last do what they always said they could do. They always said they could hit a target from 10,000 feet and it actually wasn’t true – they were always missing. There was a very high inaccuracy factor – there isn’t any longer. Weapons are so accurate – nowadays when an aircraft wishes to hit a target it does hit it.”\n\n\nThere is a battlefield National Park on the outskirts of Washington DC at a place called Manassas. It was here,
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Hypothetical questions get hypo answer. Hope the following would 'serve' you and you may keep yourself engaged (LOL):\n\nPoll date: February 18, 2005\n\nHave you served in the US military in wartime?\n\n Yes, World War I     0.7 % (23) \n Yes, World War II     1.8 % (63) \n Yes, Korean War     4.2 % (148) \n Yes, Vietnam War     33.2 % (1170) \n Yes, Desert Storm     6.0 % (211) \n Yes, Iraq/Afganistan     2.4 % (85) \n No     51.7 % (1819) \n Total votes: 3519 \n \nNote: You may vote only once. This ARRLWeb poll is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those ARRLWeb users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of the amateur community as a whole, or of the ARRL.