they complain and whine about spending money to help American with health care, pay mortgage, education, everything except when it comes to invading other country or building up nuclear arsenal which we should hope we'll never need. 

We see first hand how expensive it is to go to war against an enemy no where near our capability like Iraq and Afghanistan and yet instead of being diplomatic with the whole world, the religious nuts keep treating Israel like a spoiled child and risk alienating at least half of the Muslim world.  American world attitude has been idiotic from what i see for at least the last 50 years.  We're readily too eager to hate ideas like communism, socialism, Muslim because time after time politicians use them to invoke fear within the American people to make themselves look like heroes as they paint hateful colors to these ideas when in fact we should disagree with these idea but also respect their differences.  To this day we still use socialism and communism as words of insult in America.  How do we expect to have any kind of diplomatic relations with with countries like China and Russia when we ridicule their national sovereignty which was why it took them many many years to not aim their weapon at us and let us shake their hands.  What is it that America really want to do? That we should confront everyone nation to be a democracy like us and risk a nuclear war like we have already done with Russia? Will people look at us as a friend when we invade their country with false justification? I think not.  Instead of embracing the world, we as American build up military arsenal and hold the world hostage while we laugh at other ideas that aren't in line with ours.  Had Americans been honest to the Iraqee people in the first place, had we stood up and apologize to them that we made a mistake in invading their country and that the right thing for us to have done was to hand over Saddam to the international tribunal for crime against humanity then pull out of Iraq and leave the country for the Iraqee people to decide their own fate we would have been able to feel a little better sleeping at  night instead of carrying home thousands of American corpses from Iraq and throwing away billions of dollars into this war each day while the citizens of Iraq suffer and companies like Haliburton profit off of hard working tax payers.

  If another country falsely claim that America conspire to attack them and come in to invade us, I or any American that love this country would bomb them too if they come into my house.  Though i have a brother that served in Iraq for 12 months last year I was thankful that he wasn't harmed and that he didn't have to hurt any Iraqee while he was there. But if you have any sense of honesty, you should know we have no business being there in Iraq.

by Lnn7 on 03/02/2009 01:34:03 AM EST

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I really, really, REALLY hope you're being facetious Ken because any family members of a fallen soldier hearing that reason would probably be pretty unhappy that their son or daughter gave their life simply to make an example out of a dictator.

I will assume you were being facetious, but if you weren't, the counterargument I'd have to postulate would be that I don't think any individual who had the potential to overthrow his/her country in order to install a dictatorship/junta/etc. would reconsider now that Saddam has been made an example of.

Also, I'm sure most existing dictatorships realise that America's hands are full, and probably could not start another war just because a dictator was behaving badly. Take for example, Kim Jung Il.  He's recklessly pursuing a nuclear weapons delivery program without any noticable concern about American intervention.

by DaeguBill on 03/02/2009 09:59:41 AM EST

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