Well I could see the smoke from 9/11 on that clear day from the oceanfront in harvey cadars .....and also had a friend in tower one ...... that didnt make it out....so my opinion is we did the rite thing......

aw Hell, It Was Time The World Realized, Piss Us Off Pay The Consequences
For once all departments of the military and political, were in agreement!!

Whether it's a Democrat or a Republican that leads us into an unjust war, he points up the reason we should never follow either like sheep...nor should we confuse being an American with blindly following misguided politicians into wars that have nothing to do with being American or being FREE...Dying for a just cause like freedom is noble...dying over a global business deal is not...

Iraqi freedom is just a byproduct...

Slinger..I love ya man...but somebody PLEASE tell me what we solved about 911 by invading Iraq?...it was like havin' the dog bite you and turnin' around and kickin' the cat!?!?...

just keeps em lookin over there shoulder...

We killed 3,000 soldiers and dropped 4 billion to keep 'em lookin' over their shoulder?...:head:

I think a big part of that war was finishing what Bush Sr started. After desert storm, we should have made Kuwait the 51 state.

That's cool and all Phatdaddy but the invasion wasn't packaged that way. To put it like that kinda lends credence to the argument that Jr. had a personal agenda to finish what daddy started.

Well Blue...now that you mention it, prior to the invasion when he was drummin' up support, I watched him speaking one night when he said..."another good reason to get Saddam is because he tried to have my daddy killed"...sounds pretty personal to me...that's when all my antennas went up!!...prior to that, I thought we had something in W...he was elected president of a democracy, not handed the crown to a kingdom...I think he got confused along the way...:bsflag:he's FULL of it...

Blue, Oz I am not going into the whole thing again, we have had multi page posts on this before.
But I do want to say something here, if you truly believe the only reason we went into Iraq was a vendetta, or to make money on oil then I am afraid you have bought into the left wing agenda and inspite of what has been posted and talked about before it is unlikely anyone will change minds here.
Two quick things

1. we have not been struck for seven years, all of the sh!tbirds are doing everything they can to stop a fledgling democracy in Iraq, something that if succesful will destroy their vision of middle east and then world domination by the true beleivers of Allah. There leadership is hiding in caves and living like the insects they are. When they pop their slimy heads out of the holes American troops are blowing their heads clean off.
They are on the run and Iran, who is behind a major part of this dillusional fundamentalists agenda is right there next door and sweating what our next move will be.
2. there were people who make money off of strife in the world, there were fortunes made during our civil war, was that not an honorable war, do you believe that fortunes were made during WWII? of course, was that to say that it was not the right thing to do?
We all know the answers to those questions.
We had a tyranical despot that went thru over a dozen resolutions from the UN security council, we had intelligence from several countries besides our own that indicated that something needed to be done, if not now real soon.
Then bam our whole world was shaken, and these leaders including Hussein were dancing in the street, literally, on TV for the world to see.
We had an opportunity to go in, take him out and we also took out the Taliban in Afghanistan too, now instead of america waiting for the next bomb to go off at home, for the next wave of disaster we now had something we did not have before, a true battlefield where no towel wrapped sh!tbird would stand a chance against our troops.
There is a lot more strategy to what is happeneing here than what is being said for public consumption.
And to say that our troops are dying just because big oil wants more, or that GW wanted to revenge daddy is a severe underestimation of the capability of people with a lot more intel than we have and I believe a lack of understanding of what has been accomplished.
step back for a moment, forget the kooks and their conspiracy theories and the left wing media assault against a sitting president and the brave men who are fighting our war and ponder what has been done.
Though I am not happy with how some things were done, the strategy of it is brilliant, and our people at home here in the US are much safer, the world economy is much more stable and a major roadblock has been put up in the previously unchecked march of radicals.
JMHO