What is your position in the military?
You speak like you are a consummate tactician and have access to "eyes only" classified documents.
How do I know what we've found?
Do you really think that Bush's White House would keep anything they thought even MIGHT be a WMD in Iraq a secret? It would be on the news so fast your head would spin. With the impending election, news like that could save Bush's presidency...and lend him credibility.
Speaking of credibility...you have done nothing whatsoever to attain any level of credibility. My credibility comes from the fact that I am an American Citizen, a registered voter, with a wealth of information (regardless of the fact that almost all media is biased in some regard) in front of me daily. I can make my own decision, and talk about the reason I have made those choices.
That is the wonderful thing about our free country.
Getting back to what you said earlier...I have children, although none of them are old enough to serve their country...and if they choose to, I would be proud of them for that service. I have lost friends and seen the trauma caused by armed conflict. The relatively tamest (I detest myself for using that word to describe an armed conflict, but in relation to our other conflicts of the 20th century, it fits) conflict caused HUGE amounts of trauma for the people who had to go and fight. I appreciate and thank every single one of them. And every one of the people who are in Iraq right now. The people that work to keep this country safe, yourself included, are the most selfless, patriotic, and UNDERappreciated people in our country. They do their thankless dangerous job so I can sleep at night...securely. I thank them for their sacrifices. I support our troops 100%. They are doing their job, and getting it done with what they are given.
I DO NOT support the motives that got us there in the first place, nor the decisions and methods that are keeping us there, now and in the future.
I asked for one shred of evidence that supports us being in Iraq.
You stated that Iran is a bigger threat and wouldn't we "rather be poised, ready and sitting on their borders?"
Last I knew, the forcible takeover of a country because they are adjacent to our real target was something done by Hitler's Nazi Germany and against International Law. Of course Bush's foreign policy is to make us unaccountable to ANYONE for any of our actions. But he still holds other accountable? You really feel that Iran is that important that we should have killed thousands of innocent civilians...and over a thousand of our own troops, your PEERS, to have access to their border?
You have an even worse case for being there than Bush.
As I am sure you, with your vast tactical knowledge, know, Iran is also bordered on the northwest by Turkey. Of course their common border is only about a third of the one that Iraq shares with them. On the east they share a large common border with Afghanistan, which we were supposed to have conquered (with a darn good reason...I am in full support of Afghanistan) but left to the wayside once Iraq became the focus. We have enough control of that country to use it for access to Iran.
On the northwest is the Black Sea and the South is the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Directly across the Persian Gulf is Saudi Arabia (Our so called ally) and almost touching is Kuwait, who owes us a debt of gratitude that is unpayable. Being of a military mind...you must know that for a full scale military invasion, our most efficient and productive means of attack is by air. Bombers and Naval aircraft and missles systems are the single most important weapon in conventional warfare. So how important is Iraq?
Before we invaded Iraq we had Iran surrounded on three sides.
Now that we have Iraq...if we were to invade, we would leave our backs open to Syria, the other, OTHER biggest threat in the middle east. Tell me what advantage we are gaining by fighting a guerilla war in the streets of Bahgdad?
Oh, by the way.
I voted in 1992,1996, and 2000. I voted in all my state and local elections, the primaries and will vote in November.
I regularly write letters to my Representative and Senator...on both the State and Federal level.
In 2000 I voted for Bush.
I won't make that same mistake again.
*CAV, please don't feel that this is a personal attack...I would hate to have hard feelings. I enjoy discussing strong topics such as politics and this is a political forum. Because we do not (and probably never will) agree on politics, does not mean I don't think you are a good person. I have read many of your other posts and think you are someone I would get along with just fine. The beauty of our political system is that we can hold dissenting opinions. And talk freely about them. It is our right.
It is a big, big world. CNN doesn't tell you everything that is happening in it.
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