Troll wanted to me to "Tell us daylia, what perfect planet do you live on that you feel you can instruct us in the way we should run our country?

The beautiful planet upon which I am currently incarnate is governed by many "laws of nature", one of which is the "law of equal return". In physics, this translates roughly to "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". In human social affairs, the Hindus have long called it "karma", meaning "whatever you do comes back to you."

Apparently the present rulers of the US, and many of your past ones, consider it their divine (?) "right" to "enforce American principles and American interests" upon the rest of the planet, using "all means necessary" (your President's words), legal or illegal, moral or immoral.

If you don't like the "returns" this earns you, in the form of unsolicitied advice about how to run your country, then either get another President, take those "American principles and American interests" back to the drawing board, or both. Preferably both, and the quicker the better, for the sake of the rest of my beautiful planet and all life upon it.

Simpler yet, how about giving your rulers a crash course in the meaning of the word "boundaries", or maybe "international law"? "Ethics" and "compassion" might prove helpful as well.

Or maybe they just need a reminder that unlike in your "World Series", in real life the US is only one (relatively puny) part of the world, and not the whole thing.

If you still don't understand where I'm coming from, an elementary geography lesson would likely help you, Troll.

Oh yes, and I wanted to change the word "victim" in the statement I made above "I wish only the best for your family members stationed in Iraq, and all other victims of your government's propoganda machine."

I was trying to be compassionate when I said that, and I do wish the best for everyone involved in this conflict. But as someone pointed out above, the truth is that soldiers are not really 'victims' of the propoganda machine unless they are forced to fight. Your soldiers freely chose their brainwashing, their present role as high-tech, gov't-salaried murderers of innocent people and illegal invaders of a sovereign nation. They are therefore willing accomplices, not victims, in the vicious criminal act currently underway in Iraq.

Sadly, they too will reap what they sow. As will we all.

I'd say "God help us all", but "God" helps those who help themselves.
So that's my BIG helping for y'all! Don't choke on it now!

daylia