OMG...how can human beings celebrate like that (rhetorical question)....Hell, even if we caught OBL I wouldn't dance in the street on his corpse...I sometimes wonder why we are trying to improve the lives of barbarians.Because this is a war. This is far from new, and is no different than Somalia, or our POWs being beaten and paraded through the streets of Hanoi, or what went on during the Korean War, and numerous wars before that.
I don't think we are trying to improve their lives, I think we removed a dictator and potential future threat. I hope and pray that this war doesn't turn into a nation-building mission or we'll be there for many years, and we'll continue to lose an American a day (or more). It looks like nation-building at times, but I hope that's just a preparation for turning the place over to an elected government.
Anytime anybody tells you the war was over last summer, just point them to this thread or this website : Those killed supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom
Yeah, I know what people do to American soldiers when they are captured. I've read enough about it to know that I would not want to be captured alive.
I agree that we removed a threat to us and our posterity, but it is one of our stated purposes in this operation to bring democracy and freedom to a people who have been oppressed by a dictator for decades.
I'm not here saying that we need to nation-build, but to say that is not what we are doing right now is wrong. I agree Saddam had to go, but we are also rebuilding their infrastructure and govt.
Is it the right thing to do? Time will tell, I only fear that it will be a even more bloody process than most realize. They (US Soldiers) have my prayers for safety and victory.