US is going to war tomarrow... dang...

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UN has a choice join the US and Britian in war or stay out of it...

Bush and Blair pretty much said as much about twenty minutes ago...

I can't believe this is going to happen...

Didn't hear the news yet, I'm almost sure france is going to u se their veto.
Yeah, the war will come, believe me...

*sigh* yes it will...

man..

/me sighs

Lousy no good wars...

I think I won't say any cynical comments...There has been one sentence going through my mind for weeks now. It was in the race for the US presidency when GB answered to the Iraq question: Dictatorship is wrong, unless I am the dictator ofcourse. It was a sick joke.

It'll be more like Thursday or Friday I suspect.

I don't think it'll last long. A week or two?

Presently, under the sanctions and inspections regime, an estimated 20,000 to 60,000 children die each year. This is due to Saddam taking food importans and reselling them for hard currency to purchase weapons.

So while war is certainly not ideal, I suspect it will end up saving a lot of Iraqi lives.

Perhaps my history flavors my opinions - as a previous Airborne Ranger and a Vietnam combat vet, the ensuing war is a step in the right direction. As Bush said, the great waters no longer seperate us as they once did; Iraq poses a genuine threat to all free countries and no one has the luxury of pretending such a threat will never rear its ugly face. Vietnam was an unjust war designed to fill politician's pockets, so I indeed don't lust for war. Any war or conflict is a sad and unwelcome event. Iraq has a very evil dictator, and I'm sure not one of us wishes to live under his thumb. Bad guys must be dealt with...

im livin 15 miles form DC. so if this war breaks out into serious bomb threats............!!!

generals gather in their masses

I am in Maryland, not so far from DC...I haven't gone into DC since 9-11

If its gona get bad there is realy no place to hide

someone said that they 20k to 60k kids die because of saddam each year. so why is it that his people love him so much?

this is all horse crap, i dont give a crap about the middle-east. i saw the americans stay in the usa and we take care of our own problems. iraq cant hurt us from all the way there and we should focus on that goat bin laden.

in case you didn't know Sadam gave Bin Laden money, and US govt has found an Al-Quida training camp in Iraq, if we have to go to war to prevent 9-11 from happening again I support it 100%... this is our problem. This is a key to catching Bin Laden, with Iraq gone, he'll have one less place to hide

it very well could end up saving a lot of Iraqi lives, many children for sure. I dunno, it just sees there should be another way than all out war, though none of the displaced trust the US because of being left out in the cold the last time around, so that isn't an option realy.

War is never good, killing, but if you weigh the issues out in the end, it sometimes turns out to be the only real solution to get back on the path with a positive direction...

maybe this is one of those times, though I do not see it yet... and win or loose will not make the difference for me, the resulting reality which the iraqi people are left with is key to that...

anyway..

dang I wish I could sleep....

guys chill. Just imagine ur one of those people who has no idea about current events. Then again my dad does work in DC.

Visualist: You think the Iraqi people love Saddam?

and his office is less than a mile from the white house.........................then again they might declare a 'federal emergency' in which case he gets 2 stay home!!!!!!!!!!!

frogboy, that is a hard question 2 answer. In the recent Iraqi poll on whether the people wanted Saddam to stay in power was probably rigged. The poll showed that 97% of the population of iraq 'luv' saddam. Guess who was 'counting' the votes............... SADDAM!!

And the day the poll was taken saddam was goin everywhere kissing babies and stuff like that

lol, counting votes huh

no, they do not love Saddam anymore than the people loved PolPot..

The thing is, isn't it up to them to kill the tyrant?
anyway...

the claim that Saddam is a global threat is rather hallow to me, North Korea is another story, they ARE a global threat and will sell anything they can to anyone who wants it. They have gulags where over 200,000 people die each year, some used as attack dog chew toys, others a test bunnies for bio and chem weapons research, others just worked to death and their cot filled when they croak... I dunno, seems to me we got the guns pointing in the wrong direction,at least at this moment.

In Iraq it's a good survival trait to 'love Saddam'...
In Australia, the other day, we had another 'War protest'...this time it was by Iraqi immigrants now living in Oz IN FAVOUR of the attack and the removal of Saddam...except, of course, for a few others of them who were dead against it because their families were still there and would most likely be targetted if those in Oz got too vocal...

"This is a key to catching Bin Laden"
Bollocks!
Beating the snot out of Iraq and the Iraqi people will just add another grievance to the long list in the extremist anti-US faction's propaganda machine, and a whole new generation of Muslim martyrs to generate more terrorist actions.
Bin Laden is still out and about, who says Hussein will be captured or even killed, certainly the past year has shown how not to deal with terrorist cells.
Sadam Hussein was a 'good 'ol boy' when he was fighting the Iranians, Ollie North should know and Bill Casey sure liked him!
"With Iraq gone .."
The object is not the destruction of the country and the ordinary people.
Then again, ordinary civilians were the targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki so that's not out of line with US policy.

Violence is never a solution to a problem.
However,
Saddam has proved to the world that the UN is bogus and speaks with a forked tongue.