Standing up for what you believe.

[along-for-the-ride]

along-for-the-ride wrote: Well, here's my two cents worth.

I agree with her right to peacefully protest and the location of this protest is not of importance. This is America and the President, with all due respect, is a public servant and elected official. What she has down has brought out to the public and presidential eye that not all Americans are behind this war. I am with her in spirit.

I believe this terrorist threat is real, but it is a global threat. To zero in on one country and send our soldiers there to risk their lives is not fighting this threat effectivley. All nations need to pull together and come up with a global defense to fight this abomination. In other words, new and different tactics need to applied. Does the actual combat situation exist today? We are dealing with a new kind of enemy and need to realize this.

Also, I feel our National Guard should be here at home. We need them here to help us Americans with our terrorist threat, and also with the natural disasters that have occured. All countries need to have their own National Guards firmly implanted in their own home countries. All these various National Guards should be under an international alliance and cooperate together in this "War on Terrorism".

Soldiers are just people who are answering a call to do what they feel is right. I am behind our American soldiers and proud of them. But, I don't want any more to die over there. Many of us Americans are just getting impatient and remember Viet Nam.

I believe the Iraqi people want their own country back and want the power to have a part of the process of building it back up themselves. With the good, the bad, and the ugly, it's called National Pride. For a people to feel helpless and dependant on others is not a good thing. In our country, it was the Revolutionary War.

Allright, allright.....I'm off my little soapbox now..............:yh_flag


I just saw this on the net..,,,appropriate to my previous statement about the war on terrorism.

[nvalleyvee]

Yes that is what I going to post earlier, if Bush does not bring our troops home during his Presidecy, (I sincerely hope he does) then the war will most definetly end in 2009. When the new President takes over in 2008 & is in power for a few months. :-2 (It most likely will become a platform for the new candidates to advocate)


I agree. I just hope we aren't back there in another 10 years.

[rainbowsmiles]

Well here goes! What are your opinions of the woman out in Texas camped out at the end of the Prez. driveway? I told my husband if she was not so far away I would join her. He says she a kook and she ought to go home. I don't think anyone who loves their son who has been killed and is trying to make a statement without guns or a lot of yelling and screaming is right on. Every time I hear on the news of more of our men and women being murdered over their, my heart breaks for their families. I proud of them for believing that they are doing the right thing by going over there but I really feel that they have been brain washed. There are a lot of young Bush"s but haven't heard of a one of them in the service.


I agree Bridget! I think that many of the families were misled on the purpose of this war and now that they have lost a child they love they want answers. It is understandable! I guess the part I don't understand is HOW they could be misled. I knew the war was a joke from day 1. I don't see how people believed it was anything more than just a personal vendetta. I was saying there were no weapons of mass destruction from the instant Bush said there was so...I also find it nausiating that Bush hides behind the entire terrorism threat. Yes, it is real and we need to do something about it but fighting a useless war in Iraq is certainly not the answer! I feel sad for families losing their loved ones and I hope this war ends soon!

[ubetta]

rainbowsmiles wrote: I agree Bridget! I think that many of the families were misled on the purpose of this war and now that they have lost a child they love they want answers. It is understandable! I guess the part I don't understand is HOW they could be misled. I knew the war was a joke from day 1. I don't see how people believed it was anything more than just a personal vendetta. I was saying there were no weapons of mass destruction from the instant Bush said there was so...I also find it nausiating that Bush hides behind the entire terrorism threat. Yes, it is real and we need to do something about it but fighting a useless war in Iraq is certainly not the answer! I feel sad for families losing their loved ones and I hope this war ends soon!


I have always wondered... and please understand this is a question and a real effort to understand...

Just how do you believe that someone who is misled, not see the 'truth', not believe in the cause, reason or explanation and yet support these men and women? How do you support them if you don't believe or trust they know what they are doing?

You want to do 'something'...just what is it that you think should be done? If Iraq is not the answer (which, I don't ever think ANYONE said it's an answer) what is?

[Accountable]

I find it wryly amusing that people put so much stock in the weapons of mass destruction detail (yes, detail, as in small part of a larger whole) of Pres Bush' argument to attack. Every country has weapons of mass destruction, or should. Is it those people bent on gun control being distracted or what?



I have questions as far as why we went to Iraq instead of Syria, but WMDs? Red herring.



Now for the thinking people: past is past. We're there now. We've got to get the new government up and running, figure out how to keep terrorists from flowing into the country, and stop calling terrorists insurgents. This is where, in my opinion, we need to focus our energies - not on useless woulda coulda shoulda whinging.