[abc1]

War is messy, always has been and this war was made on us (U.S.).
We merely responded to a thereat posed collectively by countries. These were tacit participants in the actions leading up this war. Pick an Arab country from Morroco to Pakistan and those governments either gave assistance or looked the other so as to feign ignorance of the obvious.

We can fight them there now, or here later.

I am afraid it is no longer up to us,
the situation was thrust upon us.

[gogeo]

I don't think we are nation building. I understood what W meant when he said he didn't want to be a nation builder.

This is a case of, "You break it, you bought it." We should help them put things back together.

[Hollywoodghost]

This doen't wash--The we fight them there or we will have to fight them here--is a crock. We shouldn't be there. We shouldn't be in Germany or Japan as well(not now). If they want to fight us here--GOOD--Then we can ambush them as they drive on the freeways. Iraq isn't a real enemy--they can't get us (outside of some terrorist acts). Lets pick on someone our own size--China or Russia or United Europe. Lets stop worring about re-building (we haven't rebuilt Serbia have we?) and if Iraqi women have rights, and start thinking about what is in it for the US.