Fine, T... Enlist!!! Yeah, take the safety of yer little world and go fight in Iraq...

What you say is nuthin' more than BS, BS and more BS... Sure Saddam was defiant... I recently heard a guy on NPR who had many coverstaions with Saddam afetr he had been captured... This guy said that Saddam bluffed becasue it was all he had...

Take your ownself and make yourself the leader of Irag with enemies on every front and see what you would do if you really didn't have the means to defend yourself and were in the middle of ssnactions which further crippled your ability to defend yourself...

You'd porbably do just as Saddam did...

I eman, it's easy to run a country, or the world for that matter, from the safety of your warm living rooms and dens in front of your computers... ot so east being the leader of a Middle Eastern country...

Do I view Saddam as some great hero??? No... He did what he had to do to survive fropm internal and external threats until Bush got a hard-on for his hide... It was never a queation whether or not the US military could put Saddam in a box... That was a given...

But what wasn't a given was the costs to do so...

You are a Brit, t... Yes, the UK made and continues to make some finacial sacrifices... The US, however, has set its domentsic agenda back maybe 2 decades... We are now borrowing more money to fight wars and just half way maintain our domestic promises, which BTW, there has been much discussion about cutting back...

Beyond the loss of life and the very screwed up situtaion the US finds itself in, the domestoc agenda is very much a part of the security of our country... We have kids who can'tr read... We have 40 million people leivibng in poverty... We are deeply in debt to China... Our kids can't think... This is where the money could have gone... Instead, we have another Vietnam on out hands... Meanwhile, oil rich Russia is seanakingg abck up on US... Afganisatn is falling back into Takliban hands...

Yeah, as a Brit, there is probably a little bit of ***well-thwey-desreve-it*** in you... No, we don't desereve this... Bush may... But he American people who are suffering from stagnant wages and a general decline in quality of life don't deserve this... All for what??? So Bush could get his jollies???

Well, historians will be more than happy to delvier him a platter full of jollies, 'cept they won't be too tastey...

And my offer still stands... You want a war then enlist!!!

B~