Bush ties Iraq to fight on terror

[NITE OWL]

I admitted my wrong doing and apologized for it. Similar comments have been made on this board, didn't see anyone jumping down their throats. I apologized. If it's not accepted there's nothing I can do about that.

Let it go.

You have a nice day.

[ted]

SJ, thanks for taking the time for the responses.

I won't bore the thread with more quotes and answers (not that yours are boring or not received in my heart with gladness, it's more like....well...my fingers get tired sometimes ), so I guess I'll just sum up basically what I'm saying and save everyone from reading, yet again, my little opinions of everything all the time.

Yes, we have to stand ready to meet force with force. A force that will leave no doubt as to who will win. What ever that entails, we have to be ready to do it. I like Bush because he actually had the coconuts to face this threat head on. A lot of people just don't want to face the fact that we have to do something about the mess. By that, I mean the whole mess, not purely the ones that actually hit us on 9/11. If anyone fails to see that there are other threats and acts of terrorism besides 9/11, then I feel sorry for them....sorta.

The threat is real, we just didn't have the guts to do anything about it before Bush came along. Certainly, the President before him didn't do much about it, that much is clear.

Hopefully, the next President that we get tossed into our laps in a few years will continue to face the threat in much the same way.

I don't care what the neighbors say, we have to continue to hunt them, flush them out, and stop them before they have a chance to nail us again. If any terrorist doesn't like the idea, they can stop what they are doing and find a real job to support their families, like we're all supposed to do. I didn't mandate that they get stuck in the sand somewhere and live their lives, so I don't want them killing me because they can't make ends meet. That's what it's about anyway. They just kind of mix in their stupid little religion to add flavor to the cause.

If they truly believed that we were the Great Satan, then they would totally shut us off from their oil, right? After all, who could actually make deals with a country as corrupt as ours, right?

Right.

They trump up this idiocy that says we are destroying their culture with our brand of commercialism. They say that we are corrupting their pure way of life with ours. Well, if it was all that bad, they would shut us off from their oil. They wouldn't want our blood money, would they? Surely a society as pure as theirs couldn't stand to be associated with us, right?

I'm calling their bluff, and so is Bush. It's not about their god or the stupid little book they read from, it's about how they think they are being dealt a bad hand at the market, pure and simple. Fine, shut us off and deal with someone else, I say. We will survive through invention, as the needs arise. But no, they drive jets into our buildings. They blow up our barracks. They cut the heads off of our contractors and reporters, and they play the poor, oppressed people card for the world to embrace.

Ok, if it's a fight they want, well, they got one. How the world falls for their BS is beyond me. How anyone (and I don't mean you, by any stretch of the words) can see what they do and turn around and place the blame at our feet, I'll never know.

Fine, they want war, they got war.

Personally, I wish that they would figure out how to settle all of this without war, but there comes a time when we have to face reality, which I think we are doing a pretty good job of right now. It's just sad that we don't have the guts to stick it out for the long haul, as a nation. Many of our own people are weak, and don't want to face this reality, but terrorism isn't going to be beat in just a few short years. It just ain't gonna happen. Not only do we have to beat them in war, but we have to find a way to erase generations of teachings that espouse this stuff.

So, yes, we have to beat them at their own game (war, attacks, murders, etc..) at first, but hopefully, this will open a door to changing their thought process and leave them understanding that blowing up kids in the market is not the way to make a point.

Yes, we will have many more years of bloodshed, it's a reality we have to be strong enough to endure. If we are not willing to finish it, then we might as well turn tail now, go home, and wait for the certain death that will come to us in time.

With the will of a people that understand why we must fight on behind us, we can be assured of victory in less time than we think. If we continue in self-national doubt, and continue to remain in a self-imposed denial of the truth, then this will drag on until we finally reach a slow, national suicide.

Anyway, the big picture is easy to see. We have to win. However, it's always the details that seem to trip us up. You bring up great points as far as what to do with prisoners. Do we let them go, or do we hold them indeffinetly? I wish I had the answer. It would make this go so much quicker, but I don't. Personally, I vote for keeping them until we are assured of their unwillingness to join the fight again. I'm not sure how to be assured of that, but there is no easy answer. The only real solution is to make sure we don't take any prisoners in the first place, but that puts us into a "kill 'em all" mentality, which I don't think is right, either.

So, for now, I remain a simple soldier, and not a politician. I'll go if they ask me, and live life in peace (hopefully) in the down time- enjoying what God has seen fit to give to my charge.

As for your goal of becoming a soldier, I commend you, but I want you to be sure that you are 100% convinced of the cause. If not, you will never forgive yourself. Try not to let emotion get in the way of your decision. You could quite possibly be involved with some stuff that will remain with you for the rest of your life.

It's a decision that you have to be sure of.

Either way, may the Lord bless you and show you where He needs you most!

t.

[Gerioke]

Well, as long as your little corner of the world is safe, I reckon that's all that matters.

In the mean time, others are not so fortunate. All we are doing is trying to try, that's all.

Hopefully, Nova Scotia will never have to go through what New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania did, but if so, we'll be there to help.