Whoo... I missed a lot over the weekend
(I haven't read over all I missed, so what I'm about to say could have been said before)
"Also, the fact that Americans have killed many more Iraqis than Saddam over the last two decades sort of bothers me."
-Dyflon-
The fact that Saddam killed his own people in such a painful way for no reason bothers me even more. That's the equiveant of Bush dropping a Nuke on the US or poisoning the water supply... have you ever thought about that?
I think there are two problems with the war:
#1: US citezens were not able to put a face on many of the people who died september 11th. No superstars died, no faces that everybody in the country is famillair with died, and a building that most of the population has never went and seen was destroied. While in the war on terrorism people can put a face on a lot of soldiers who are going out to die. By soldiers dying and going out to die every corner of the country is affected to some extent
#2: America is way too soft. If you are going to fight in a war, fight by there rukes not your own. America looks at war as a boxing match, where how you fight is "honerable" while Iraq is looking at the war as a wrestling match, where you do everything it takes to win. Right now only one side is wearing the gloves, and that's why so many of the soldiers are dying. If Iraq had nukes they would try and Nuke US, if Iraq had the millitary of US they would go in and kill us mercylessly... Right now by our "Boxing match" rules the war is over, but we are still getting smashed over the back of the head with a chair
I say US should stoop to there level... drop a Nuke in the desert and scare the **** out of the Iraqi citezens, and say that if they don't obey we are going to drop another right on Baghdad. That would lower the death toll by a huge amount and if they don't obey even then, that will prove that they are incapible of following our orders and every man should be either killed or put in prison.
People don't understand that Iraq has a whole different society than us, they have different thoughts than us on what's right and what's wrong, what's weak and what's strong. Right now we are weak... and if we back out that's only going to make other countries' (who hate us) will power against us stronger. They will know that us weak americans will eventually give in if you keep fighting... hell, they already think that way because of past events! But this war is the ultimate example war, if we back out we will never EVER be able to win a war again without wiping out another country's whole population, period.
Ether they are going to learn that we will keep fighting until the smaller country obeys, or they are going to learn that if they keep fighting as long as there is a breath in there body, America may give in. Thus this war is one of the most important wars ever.