Whats your attitude towards war ?
550955
War should be considered as the ultimate failure of a civilised society.\n\nWhen violence is the only answer, we are obviously don't have the intelligence to find the right questions.
667449
For heavens sake dont ever think of WAR first and then about its experience.\nWar is nothing but overall destruction. War seperates families.War destroys industries/buildings/bridges/propetrties/schools/hospitals.\nIt kills the soldeirs both side who are citizens of some country or the other,as well as innocent citizens who are not part of any army. It kills young and old alike. People are left with maimed organs for entire life.\nEven after the war is over one does not know where the hiddeen mines are which explodes when some one trips over.\nIt is horror , a terrorised experience to go thro and service . What a taste you have \nAre you joking when you ask was it hard living through it . want some one to say he enjoyed living through it. \nNot only the warring nations but all the rest of the world suffers and pay a price because of shortages of many items due to diversion of items to war fronts.
430334
I feel that in a given situation what started as good intent has turned bad.  Our soldiers went to Iraq on a mission for our leaders, a mission disguised as Democracy.  You cannot blame the soldiers.  When this mission did not turn in favor of our leaders bad things began to happen, soldiers in confusion, some of them young and very ignorant or unknowledgable of the Iraqi culture, or any respect of other cultures, some just the a-holes that we interact with on any given day back here in the USA, those who are high strung or have a superior than you attitude. Some, terrified young men and woman just out of high school who have yet to experience  anything of the world. Some very honorable and moral human beings-our soldiers are as diverse in humanity as any civilian on our streets-good and bad people. They are thrown into a seemingly hopeless and confusing situation.  Yes, it has turned bad, horrifically bad.  My cousin returned from his tour just 6 months ago and the heinous crimes he witnessed by his fellow soldiers against Iraqis was mentally trying and heartwrenching for him (I wish I could say more of his proof that he has, it is visual and graphically distburing)..but he feared for his own safety and feared to report some the callous acts of these soldiers as threats were made against him when he confronted them. One went as far as to make a comment of "Friendly Fire" and how dishonorable that it is to go home in a coffin from an "accident" instead of courageous battle.  There are bad people and yes some are our own, the best thing for us to do is leave Iraq.  I have said it before its not losing a war but admitting an error.  I have heard of the atrocities our soldiers are doing to civilians, and the lack of hesitation towards anyone as if they are all enemies from a soldier, an honorable person, my cousin. A man who beloves strongly in God and Faith and is terrified to speak out on what he has seen ...I hope he finds the courage to speak out and our government to admit the mistakes that they have made.\nHope this gives you insight to how some of us feel about what you mentioned.  I love and respect all cultures and all religions even if I do not understand them or agree with them, that is why the world is the world we live in the joy of diversity , the abiltiy to learn something new from someone, from ones culture.
1163230
war is always kind of bad, but thats just its nature.  war also dramatically pushes the technological envelope.  (computers, planes, ships, space shuttles, radios, cars, etc, are as advanced as they are because of the wars people fight)\n\nmost people despise war.  i would much rather use diplomacy to solve international problems, but unfortunately sometimes guns and bombs are the only solution, and if the situation calls for it, than i would use war.
487783
I support the troops and the war...and personally dont give a D*** whether im loved by Iraqis or not.
902842
War is my chosen profession.  You would probably be offended if I said I support you, but don't support you being in school.
1114800
I think most people want peace, but a few people are able to convince folks, once in a while, that war is preferable for one reason or another.  And yeah, some things are worth fighting for, and some things are worth dying for, but not nearly as many as some people seem to think.\n\nI think peace is coming back into vogue, now that we are once again learning about the cost of war.  Though it may be a while before we can have peace, because it's a much easier thing to break than it is to build.
579842
There was a great essay I saw on this the other day, here:\n\nhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/26/155350/677\n\nThanks to the original writer, I couldn't have said it better myself.  You can't wage a war against an emotion.  It's like the "war on love" or the "war on sadness", the "war on regret".  You just can't "win" or "lose", there is no goal.  I'm still trying to figure out how people got Iraq mixed up with "terrorism", despotic and tyrannical dictator and murderer, sure, but not a terrorist.
751046
I tried that "war is killing" line on this site once, but a thumper came along and said that war is not wrong, only individual murder. Of course I'm not saying I agree, but I am explaining to you that that line won't work with them. That is their mentality.
775804
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.
437136
Like it's been said, nobody 'likes' war..  Support it? 100%.  The problem in this country is people who say things like "Give peace a chance".  You think we haven't?  You can't be peaceful with people who want you dead and don't care how they do it.  Women, children, white, black, short or tall.  THEY DON'T CARE!! If you don't follow your religion, they want to kill you.  So what if you want to “give peace a chance” with them; they don’t.  Or, even you support them, they don’t care, they’ll still kill you and your family and friends and your dog just because..  Maybe once you think about who we’re fighting you might understand, but I doubt it.
823863
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.
1043239
To some extent the policy of a country will always be against the views of some folks.\n\nAlthough there is some rationale between resisting perceived invaders this does not justify blowing up a train full of commuters in the UK or Spain, crashing planes into buildings in the US or blowing yourself up in a crown of old folks in Iraq.
1106266
Well hopefully your General has your interests at heart.  As George Patton said "War is not about dyin for your country.  War is about making some other poor son of a bitch die for his country."  (well something like that.)
799038
Yes, I will. And a thought for those who oppose our presence in Iraq..\nI'm not a fan of the war or the politicians. I do, and think everyone in this country should, be respectful, thankful and compassionate to our soldiers and their families. The men and women are doing their JOBS. And, unlike you and I, have chosen to do their jobs to benefit the people of this country knowing it may cost them their lives, limbs, mental health. They do this without question and in spite of the danger. Their families support their loved ones out of love, not duty. They sacrifice out of love. I'm sure there are many family members and soldiers themselves who don't agree with the politics, but they continue to do their JOB. So, whatever your position politically, the soldiers deserve our loyalty,respect,prayers and admiration for the sacrafices they make on a daily basis while we get to be here on Yahoo Answers discussing it on a computer sitting in a chair, in a warm home. I don't know about anyone else out there, but sitting here I'm not concerned in the least that I may be shot or bombed or even get an uncomfortable chill. And no, I don't know any soldiers or any families of soldiers. I do, howerver, love this country and the life I enjoy as an American. You can't have it anywhere else in the world.
840461
be in the military, I respect soldiers, but I don't believe in war\nclean other's homes\nlawyer
533974
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!