American Idiot

You have to be kidding me, read the accounts of the soldiers in Vietnam and what happened there. The biggest crime in Vietnam is that we killed around 5 million people over a conflict that did not need to take place. The same is happening in Iraq. My question to you is, if Iraq was going to eventually be a threat, then why did we not act on the imminent threat of north korea. We know for a fact that they have a nuclear weapons program, so why did we not handle the imminent threat first? Because there is no financial gain for us to deal with North korea and even though famine and political repression in north korea are much greater than that in Iraq so why did we not decide to "free" north korea first, and by "free" i mean kill off hundred of thousands of people in the name of democracy.

The UN really has nothing to do with Iraq since we decided to ignore them totally and act unilaterally so the excuse of violating un resolutions cannot be used here since we totally ignore the UN.

The reasoning behind a preemptive strike is ridiculous. think about it, "we're going to invade you not because we know that you are a threat and have weapons of mass destruction, but because we think that maybe some time in the future you might want to develop these weapons and become a threat so we'll invade you now." This is not an excuse to start a war. Did we try everything to try to avoid war? no we did not, not by a long shot. What if Iraq used that same pretext that Kuwait might develop into a threat to them and that is why they invaded them? They would have been ridiculed, especially by our government.

This war has done nothing but built up more world wide hatred towards us and it does nothing but increase the chance of terrorist attacks. We have remanants of that British legacy of when they occupy a country and leave it, they create so many divisions amongst the people that the people end up killing each other. We have done the same by turning Sunni's against Shiites against Kurds. Iraq is better off? Correct me if I'm wrong but i don't remember suicide car bombings in Iraq until the invasion. You say Korea and Iran will be next? What are you, suicidal? You think we can keep this up for that long? Iraq will take at least 5-10 years to fix, maybe longer, hopefully by then we'll have elected a sensible leader. That is unless George Bush cancels elections all together because they threaten democracy, dissolves congress because they hate freedom, and declares himslef the fuherer.

[A conversation between Alexander the Great and a pirate he had seized] When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.