Ok, so this is a HUGE issue for me personally. I don't have friends stationed in Iraq, I don't have family deployed there, but as a mother...and just generally as a human being...the suffered and lives lost from war simply makes me sick. This war in Iraq, in my opinion, should never have been! I don't care if you say Bush was "duped" by the CIA or other officials around him, or if you say he "tried HARD" to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to have a reason to go there...he still did it. It seems to have been terribly mismanaged. I understand that running the country is a messy and terribly difficult job. I feel bad for Bush in a way. But does that give you a right to start a war for reasons you weren't 100% sure of? Killing so many many innocent people, and our soldiers? Am I totally off my rocker here?
This is what our future president thinks about it...
Obama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhpKmQCCwB8
McCain...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPddbC19LUA
I watched both of these videos. Here's the insane thing...I agree with both of them!!! How am I supposed to know which is the most just, the most crucial, the most correct way? They both make complete sense to me. Please help me...enlighten me! What are your thoughts?
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My brother is currently in the Middle East region (all over the place). We recently had a chance to visit as he had a 2 week leave. The situation over there is worse than you can possibly imagine I(with Iraq getting better as Afghanistan sinks further into the abyss). There are many people to blame for getting us into a war that will last for a while. Although I do blame the Commander-in-Chief, I really fault Congress for going along with it. Of course, the difficult part is that if they start pulling troops out now, the are labeled Un-American,
Exactly! So, what's the better way? It's a very terrible situation.
I understand and respect the opinions of those that don't agree with the war in Iraq. That is the beauty of democracy, we don’t have to agree on politics to speak out about what we believe is right. I think most Americans can agree that they want to protect our country, but we have different ideas about how to do that. The reason why I believe going into Iraq was necessary was to ultimately protect our country from future attacks on America. The war is unique because we are not fighting a country but an ideology: Islamic Fundamentalism. But simply killing Bin Laden will not bring on end to the movement--- someone will just pop up right after him. So in my humble opinion, the only way to fight ideology is with ideology, but in a tangible way: by bringing democracy to the heart of the middle east. I truly believe that what is happening in Iraq is the beginning of an age of enlightenment for the middle east. As messy as it is right now, I believe that the people of the middle east have within them the ability to don great thing, but they are imprisoned by misguided religious ideology. People might say that I’m forcing my own worldview on a different culture, but I believe that freedom is something all humans are worthy of. I know that it doesn’t look that great right now, but just look at how messy our democracy was when it began (and still is), but in time Iraq can become a great county. I understand that I may not see the full fruits of this in my lifetime, but I believe that liberating Iraq has set in motion a change in the world that will benefit the US, Iraq, and the world. One can argue about whether we have created more terrorist by invading Iraq, but one thing u can’t disagree with is that we have not been attacked in 7 years. I didn’t think that would happen on 911. Perhaps if we only went into Afghanistan regimes like Iran and Lebanon would not have stopped their development of nuclear weapons. Moreover, counties that sympathies with terrors are a lot more reluctant to harbor terrorist after the invasion of Iraq knowing that we are not just a politically correct paper tiger, an image that Bin Laden believed was true. People on the other side like to say that Bush came off as a cowboy, but that is exactly the image that the US needed at the time. Just go back to the Carter Administration, he was perceived to be so weak in the Middle East, that it only took one day for President Reagan to release the hostages in Iran in 1980. They knew better than to mess with Reagan. And now, hopefully, countries like Iran don’t want to be left with the smoking gun of having terrorist training in their country knowing that if there is another attack, and it can be traced back to Iran, they are in big trouble (even if they were not directly involved with the supposed attack). There are more scenarios, but I’ll have to tell them to u in person because i’m getting tired and I want to go to bed. Suffice it to say, that there are a lot of what if’s, but we haven’t been attacked, and that says a lot to me about Bush’s response to the 911 attacks on our homeland (unless u believe that Bush is the one actually responsible for 911, and to that I would just say, “Brian, don’t believe everything you read online”)
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