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So, is it going to be because of: "regime change", "rogue state", "weapons of mass destruction", "threats against one's family and a former President", "harboring/training Al Qaeda", "genocidal dictatorship", "control of petroleum", "axis of evil", "inherent danger to our regional allies", "friendly with O. Bin Laden", "violation of U.N. resolutions", "complicity in 9/11", "threats/attacks against Israel/Kurds/Iranians", "absence of democracy", "failure of the containment policy", "unfinished business", "support for PLO/Hamas/Jihad", "our national interests" or what/which? And, if it is to be all of the above, then what is the sudden (i.e. mission creep) urgency to do a job that should have been done ten years ago! Smells and looks bad...as it has been explained up to the present time.
Bluehawk
Air, sea (blockade and missile/gunfire) and Spec ops, but I don't support a sustained ground offensive (which we could win) that leaves us in nominal control of a country whose political system is still based on tribal might and religious right! We want to find a few bad guys not a colony. Having said that, if war is declared, I'ld back our troops all the way, but I doubt I'ld vote for Bush in '04.
SF
NC
If our troops are sent into Iraq, "ALL" Americans must support them 100%! They will need it and will definitely deserve it!
Tobe
The battlefields of half the world are populated with the graves of those whose sacrifices were asked by and given to the United States government, on behalf of us all. A pre-emptive strike would have to be followed up by an assault, to the end if at all this
time. Should that occur, it will require that all of us do as so many here suggest to be fully conscious of and supportive to every single service member at home or in the field, all the time, beginning now...whether the war is just or unjust, successful or not. Those troops have no choice, nor do we any longer (if anyone thought we ever did). And, in this case, what is more is that when and if our people finish up that mess, there will be repercussions all over the globe necessitating of them and us a form of endurance we may never have had to produce in the past, possibly for generations if not for centuries to come. EVERY day, is Veterans Day.
Bluehawk
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