I Hope This Is Not True

[Edwina's Secretary]

My views on this war are well-known and often repeated. I must tell you though....

I personally know men and women in their mid twenties and early thirties who have lost their jobs while serving this country!!!!!

There is a law against anyone losing their job because of military service. Regardless of the size of the company....the job must be held for them until they return. USERRA.

[popcornbird]

What about the innocent Iraqi women and children killed by soldiers in Haditha?

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/me...rines.haditha/

I KNOW I wouldn't be able to stand it if any of my loved ones were killed in a war that they never even chose to be a part of.

[IRescue452]

Popcornbird, you are absolutely right. There hasn't been a war on American soil for the longest time, so we forget what it would be like living in Iraq and hearing gunshots outside our windows. We got scared becase they flew airplanes into 3 buildings (far from most of our homes), imagine having your homes ransacked and destroyed and being left with a pile of rubble. Or the poor children without parents tryng to survive. To hell with feeling sorry for our troops, they never lived though anything that bad.

[caseysmom]

I feel sorry for the troops and those innocent Iraqis. I do not feel sorry for those particular soldiers if they are guilty, and they are being tried for murder.

[Cataholic]

Popcornbird, you are absolutely right. There hasn't been a war on American soil for the longest time, so we forget what it would be like living in Iraq and hearing gunshots outside our windows. We got scared becase they flew airplanes into 3 buildings (far from most of our homes), imagine having your homes ransacked and destroyed and being left with a pile of rubble. Or the poor children without parents tryng to survive. To hell with feeling sorry for our troops, they never lived though anything that bad.

What? Where does it say one cannot express remorse for a particular heinous death without naming all heinous deaths?

Why can't I express remorse for this event without any others being mentioned, or this one being discounted?

[sparks19]

while it is interesting to see everyones theories on this being the worst war ever it is simply being blown slightly out of proportion. In the past 3 years 2500 US soldiers have been KIA. Of course 1 casualty is too many but to put it into perspective, 2500 or more per YEAR are murdered BY Americans on American soil in pursuit of NOTHING except maybe a few bucks out of someones wallet. Secondly, the numbers do not even COMPARE to Vietnam.

The violence over there is mainly between the citizens of Iraq. Suicide bombers, kidnapping, torture. All those things would be going on there whether we were there or not. It's the way they are. WE did not create the violence there. The violence there is the REASON we are there.

Now I do not condone war. No one should. War is a terrible thing. but all I have heard is what the wrong thing to do is. No one seems to have any ideas for the RIGHT thing to do. It is easy to talk about what should be done when you aren't the one that has to do it.

[RICHARD]

I have changed my views on the war.

I think that after 9/11 we should have waited until the Millenium Bomber
took down the Needle in Seattle.
Or blown up LAX....


That was kind of dumb to go out and look for a war over two buildings in New York.

I thought the gas plan for the New York subway system was a little over the top. It already happened in Japan.

Terrorists need to be more creative.

[caseysmom]

If this war is in response to 9/11 that is news to me. I wasn't aware there was a connection between Saddam and 9/11, I thought him and Osama were arch rivals.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Terrorists need to be more creative.

Like rent a truck and blow up a building you know contains a day care center?

[DrKym]

ok not to Inflame anyone but as the ex wife and best friend of a former vietnam vet and a marine, I tend to give credence to his views, as for this war being a 2nd 'nam his opinion is that it isn't even close. As for our troops dying his opinion is that we all knew it was an possibility. As for the innocents dying over there his answer is simple (and painful) we are all at the mercy of that which governs us as a whole. Does that make it more acceptable ? in my opinion No but I am not a soldier(blessed be they that give of themselves so others may live) I am not hearing gunfire and screams out my window(what an awful way to to try and sleep and escape to better life by dreams) I am not calling the shots..........................oh wait I AM I can VOTE and to vote with my beliefs and separate them from false promises, any war is tragic this one especially so, so I urge all of us to have a say in our governing body every chance we get. (if I have inadvertanley offended anyone please accept my apology)

[lizbud]

I KNOW I wouldn't be able to stand it if any of my loved ones were killed in a war that they never even chose to be a part of.

I believe that's what most Americans thought on 9/11 when this country
was attacked by Islamic extremists.

All the usless loss of life, for what?

[dogzr#1]

It's really sad One of the soldiers lived 30 min from me. The family was on the news yesterday, and said they only wish that he come home safely. Now today, they found out he died, a most gruesome death... it's just sad.