hunter jere, that was a very bold thing to say on a forum like this. not too many people will agree with you as i have seen already. you are now subject to scrutiny, slander and possibly an ambush by the rightists here... but i couldn't agree with you more.

there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. there never were. g.w.shrub never cared for those poor people. if you remember the initial news media before the attack it was ONLY about the "WMDs". the people are just a propoganda to make him look special. as soon as things started looking bad and soldiers started getting killed he pasted up those posters of bleeding women, naked children and people trampling saddam's statues faster than you can even say weapons of mass destruction... i've lost a lot of good friends and family in this war OF terror. what i've heard of this bloody mess is nothing that you see on the news. on the news you see soldiers with american flags, happy iraqis, little kids playing soccer with a ball that was bought from the suffering of children in thailand working in sweatshops (which is perfectly acceptable to americans... of course we can't send children to war or allow other countries to do that but we can exploit them and make them suffer for a dime a week trying to support their families at 6 years old while we make millions and our children get fat on ice cream and television) but thats not the real picture. if the iraqis are so HAPPY to have us over there, then why are there these things called insergents? why do they kill americans if they are happy to see them? why are there more and more caskets covered in american flags coming home to mothers wives and children with no explaination of why they were really there? why doesn't bush look just a little bit sadder on america's memorial day?

i believe we went into this war for two reasons. one, to finish daddy's business and get attention from his father. maybe he wasn't hugged enough as a child... lord knows he sure drank a lot. and his children aren't exactly bundles of joy either. two, he's covering up the taliban mess. he failed the country. he screwed up big time and over 2,000 people died because of his fail to action. then all of a sudden the big bad man disappeared (bin laden) and where did he go? nobody knows... I KNOW! lets distract the american people... they're stupid and gullible... if we just draw their attention over here a little bit they'll forget this whole little mess in the mean time. meanwhile, spain, england,... lets just say europe is now suffering because of his fail to action. he doesn't want the american people to know that in a little way, the taliban are winning.they're more cunning than ever because they have time. their initial aim was to strike fear in the hearts of americans.. to never let them feelquite safe. we've let them have that victory with our own news media. we have terror alert warnings, red days, orange days, green days, yellow days, blue days, mauve days, whatever! new threats popping up every day... people afraid to fly, take the subway, trains, anything communter because we're not sure where they'll strike next. he doesn't want you to know that he doesn't know what to do.... so IRAQ IRAQ IRAQ!!!!

i support those men and women fighting over there more than probably most people on this board. every single week i send cookies, magazines, shoes for the kids, iced tea mix, ect ect ect ect. so don't tell me that i don't support those people. i love them. i have two cousins our of 5 still over there. two are dead, one is maimed for life. i have 18 friends over there (they were all in one of my classes). so don't even begin with me about not caring for the soldiers.

war on terror... thats what i see on CNN... since when is it logical to fight terror with terror? to end the reign of nuclear arms with bombs? to stop killing husbands and brothers and sons by making women widows and childless? operation iraqi freedom? an oxymoron. not too long ago i watched a movie called the siege. much the same. tell me how we're freeing these people by locking them up based on the fact that they fit a description that matches millions of men? that would never do here in america. how is it that we are trying to create a democracy over there when we're bashing the hell out of our own constitution in another country? why does our constitution only apply on american soil? shouldn't it apply in all american situations? i think so.