Hello All,
I do not have the time to read the entire post, in my past post, I have conveyed my support of your governmonts dicision making regarding this war. Butt, (Rick hold on to your hat, and beleive it or not I have always felt this way), I have fears that there is possible bad consequences for initiating this war, and fears of bad consequences for not going to war.
Of the muslims nations, I beleive there is not one nation that has a truly democratic society. They are a people that 5% of the population wields the power and has the wealth, and the other 95% live in poverty and are bullied into submission. I don't think we will be freeing the people of Iraq, they evil Dictator will be gone, but, the prosperity of the people will remain the same you are either one of the few that has it, or, on of the many poor. Secondly, I fear we will end up with a Palastine, small groups of people killing people including our troops everyday for years to come.
On the flip side, I support the war to eliminate such an evil person, Sadam. I hope the recent bombing didn't get him. This would have been a painless out for a person that has slowly tortured so many. If it is shown that Sadam had no weapons of mass destruction, (I doubt this is a likelyhood) I don't think that matters, because if didn't have them today, and was left alone, I am convinced he would have acquired them and would use them.
We live in a dangerous world, we have developed most efficient methods of killing, killing that is like playing a video game, where you don't feel the consequence of moving a joystick ro pushing a buttom. Unfortunately, with all this technology, there is still evil people in the world, that has taken the place of the Hitler's, the Musilinies, or the Sadam's that out of their own twisted ideals would kill hundreds of thousands of people.
I have adult children, a 30 daughter with three grandbabies, a newly married 27 son and a 16 year old daughter in High School. I have l thus far lived a full life, it is theirs and their children I worry for. I ask my youngest what she thought about the war, she and friends think it is wrong. It would be nice to think that other children in the world holds this same opionion so when it became their time to run things, maybe wars would be few and far apart.
I have bashed people that have said I am against the war, but, support our troops. This is an oxy-moron.
I support the war and our troops, though as you can see it is not as I view it, all glorious, waving the flag of freedom and rejoicing that we are going to make the world a better place, because we are at war.
You know we say, "God Bless America", I am sure all other countries think they also have their blessings. I don't think God meant us to act this way.
Anyway, sorry to have been too wordy, hope I offended none with my thoughts. I disagree with many that post on this website. But, I do feel most people that inhabit this site are good decent individuals, with good intentions.
