Are you willing to fight and/or die for your country?

[isoFlux]

my post above was mostly aimed at Yellowbelly. ill use quotes next time, sorry

@Crazy Ivan
Saddam used chemical and biological weapns in the war against Iran. the easiest way to find that out is to look at the reciepts. the US fully supported and induced that war through Saddam. whoopdy-doo. but the question is.... did he have the weapons of mass destruction to attack the U.S.? if so, then US troops and UN inspectors would have found them, right? not used chemical rounds from the 80\'s. not soldiers with health problems. but actual hardcore evidence of Iraq having weapons and plans to use them on the US. we have found nothing... repeat.. nothing to support this. all we have are a few scientists that say \"well, we kinda had plans, but nothing was really going on.\" and a short history of chemical warfare (that we provided). this was the biggest intelligence faliure in human history. worse than sending undercover japanese-americans into vietnam (twice). he had weapons in the past, but did not have any at the time of the invasion, or the immediate capabilities to generate and use such weapons. you need to be 100% sure of the facts before you invade a country and destory peoples\' homes. judging from what the media and politicians portrayed and what we have found out during the occupation, i\'d say there are some MAJOR differences.

peemptive-strikes are not always the best choice. \"if its not broken, don\'t fix it.\" comes to mind. no doubt many people suffered under the Sunni regime, but is it our place to run in and stir that shit up without the approval of the rest of the world?

if you think any politician is free from corruption, and doesn\'t tailor to his/her agenda to their supporters (political, and economic), you are kidding yourself. nothing is free, not even votes. politics in the media is like a shallow soap opera, while the real policy-making and voting is a delicate, dangerous, and restrictive web of red-tape and corporate thugs.

if Saddam were to be killed in mid-2002 i\'m sure the world would have a different view on what kind of intervention would be needed in the Middle East. it would be a reactive, calculated affair, not a brash, single-track invasion by a country with an ego bigger than it\'s future.