[BigBobber]

There will be no peace in this region until we take down Iran and Syria. Bush may not have the political capital to take on this next stage of the fighting, so we are in a holding pattern.

Allowing an Iranian puppet government to take over Iraq and threaten the other oil producing states in the area would be disastrous. Our withdrawal would also rile up young jihadists worldwide and cause a lot of death and misery.

Don't these people realize we're in a frigging WAR? If we never invaded Iraq all these insurgents would be operating in Afghanistan, the Democrats so-called "good war". They've chosen to fight in Iraq because the stakes are so much higher. They want that oil money to fuel a worldwide jihad. What's so hard to figure out?

[SoldierDad]

You would do well to pay attention to the fact that the Islamo-facists (Al Queda) are trying to establish a new base of operations in Africa. I can't recall the African nation that was recently reported in the news as a new base of operations for them. This is a world wide struggle against a facist ideology which operated along side of the Nazi's in WWII. We had better all come together to battle this, and real soon.