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I know many of you are not American, but you still hear of the War in your newspapers, the internet, and on the news.

I want to know what you think about the war. I am not asking for anti or pro Bush comments, because you must realize it does not take only one man to declare war. He still must gain Congress on his side.

Do you think the war is being fought for hidden precedent? Why do you think that?

Do you believe we should "cut and run" or remain there for awhile longer? Why?

How would you solve the situation or one of the problems in Iraq?

I don't want to hear your opinion unless you can tell me why. If you have anything else to add I will be glad to hear it.

I'm not American, and don't really understand this war. It seems so pointless. How/why did it start in the first place? I'm so confused. It just seems stupid. What is the purpose?!

This war on terror is basically just fighting matches with hellfire. Terrorists will always be, they are the accumulation of anger and hostility of the public against governments. The only way to stop them is to scare the public into never rising up, thereby becoming terrorists. Making it possible to fight this war but never truly win. A dead end effort, and there are many more pths that could have been taken. War is expected these days, and is th easiest usable scapegoat to cover up much worse plans for the middle east..

Yes, people, this war is a ploy, and the U.S. Government is using it to suck resources out of Iraq and other such countries..

I don't agree with the war much at all. We can't just say "Hey terrorists! How about we all put down our weapons and hold hands?"

I can tell you it's not going to happen. As for why the war is being fought, even I am a bit uncertain. I've heard some people say it is to finish what Mr. Bush Sr. did not complete. For all we know Sadaam could've been the next Hitler. However, only time will tell. I think the reason for the war was not clearly stated. It was supposed to be a war on terror and then it was the Hunt for Sadaam...so what happened to all the hype about Osama?

Truth is, we're over there now and the civil war that is about to break out needs to slap our political leaders upside the head. They're saying it's stable over there, but I beg to differ. They're sitting comfortably in their million dollar homes working 75 days out of the year and have not even the slightest idea of what the stability is in the Middle East.

It's the military leaders that know what's happening because they're in the middle of the action. As for what we should do now that we are in this war, we should dump our troops into Iraq. There needs to be a good quarter of a million men over there patrolling every street corner. Watch everyone and what they do. The innocent will not cause trouble.

I find it a bit pointless to argue whether we should have started the war or not because it's happening right across the Atlantic Ocean right now.

Sorry for the book. sweatdrop

i see it as quite simple it was started to get oil out of iraq and they coused a humanitarian crissis in iraq i know that for shure they were atleast once under the rain of sadam husain equally educeted but now they are not undertherain of mister president bush and his empire. it was all started for oil oil is money money equals capital and capital equals the root of all capitalisim sweatdrop

In my opinion-

-The war should be over. Now. I'm okay with going to get Hussein, but we've got him so we can pull out. We should not be trying to impose our governmental mthods on other societies. A change from (malevolent) dictatorship to american-style democracy is too much for iraq.
-I support the troops and not the war.
-War itself is its own form of terrorism.
-Bush is being a total jerk.

Bush CAN'T declare war, he DOESN'T have that power. So to those of you that are blaming Bush for declaring war please stop. CONGRESS declares war. As far as whether the war should have started or not i have no idea. I don't support the war, more lives (in my opinion) are being lost than are being saved. I will ALWAYS support our troops though!

This is what I have been trying to explain to people. This country isn't run by just one person.