Jimmy Carter's hands were tied so that Regean would take the office. Still Jimmy didn't end up with 55 gallon drums of blood on his hands either & having to ship home coffins. I quess this still sounds more like Viet Nam after all. It's not a war (tell me it's a police action,please) & were probably gonna get out the same way, off the roof by helo. Iraq may also stay in one piece after the end too, I would hope so but we've seemed to take care that, that's not gonna happen, wonder why. I'm sure it'll take another 30 years before this releationship will be mended. 600,00 or 6,000 I can't believe there's nit-picking about the loss of life. The loss of any innocent is unexceptable but why must we except otherwise. Shit happens is not a decent answer either.

"Hugo Chavez is not someone I would turn to for justice". His people don't hold your opinion, he just won in a landslide. But then we tend to see things from our veiw point & not there's. Same everywhere else that we seem to want to stir up a honet's nest. That's why we are where we are now.

The posts above where he say, she say is the argument. It looks as if one could take out the names used & replace them with the a whole list of offending nations. So those arguments IMHO suck. I'd have to agree with the invader getting sancitioned by the rest. You invade another country first, the rest of the world turns their back on you, until you alone repair ALL. And we had the balls to ask the UN & others to clean upour shit & to help pay the tab too. What should've happened when the US invaded the last 2 nations when it saw fit to terrorize other nations is that the rest of the world should've abandoned us. But the US weilds to much power & influence & the "coalition of the willing" either didn't have the morals or the balls to shun us. Isreal would never danced thru Lebonon or put up a divide inside another states borders if they'd thought that the world would turn their backs on them.
A war isn't needed to to stop an invasion, the world shunning the invader is enough & there's no blood involved. No nation can survive as an island unto themselves though I can think of a couple or three that think they can.
Ya, I know, in a perfect world........but we almost had the world shunning us there for a while, didn't we. Wonder what changed that?
Everybody wants to back somebody & sometimes they might have a good reason for it too but it's up to the people of the nations to supply the morals & give it some backbone. Something that's been in short supply form where I'm standing. We should be fighting for the enviorment, education, national health, equality, peace & so many other things that are far more important instead we stand divided & bloody all that we touch.


Barry
Barry