First off, Bush may be concerned about power. Hell, every leader in the world is probably concernend with power. But that's not why the soldiers are fighting in Iraq. In this country, there is very little power in being in the military, even if you're a high ranking officer. It's not like America's civil war where Generals were Gods on the battlefield. Soldiers fight for other reasons. Those reasons are usually pretty simple, they care for somebody enough to either protect them or try to help them. The soldiers in Iraq are helping the Iraqis. That's not what I think, that's what the Iraqis themselves think. Remember that statue of Saddam that was torn down when American troops came into Baghdad? Did you know that the man who built that statue, the man who was forced to make that statue or die, took the bronze from the fallen statue and rebuilt it into a memorial of an American soldier kneeling in front of the grave of one of his fallen comrades while a little Iraqi girl stands beside him with a consoling hand on his shoulder? Why do you think he went and did a thing like that? Because regardless of what the media would like you to believe, most people in Iraq are a hell of a lot happier now than they were when Suddam was in control. And they thank America for that. That's why soldiers fight.

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You imply that because a fanatical terrorist killed American innocents it is okay for America to go and kill more innocents.
And when did we kill any innocents? The only innocents that have died in this war died at the hands of insurgents and terrorists. I challenge you to find a single case where American soldiers knowingly killed innocent people.

You know what makes me really sad? Too many people are worried about the politics here and fail to see any of the good things that have actually happened. Seriously, guys, did any of you think that Saddam was a good guy? I really don't give two s about why we went over there. I don't care if it was WMDs or for oil. Bush wants oil, good for him; he's only in office another two years anyway. Then he'll be out, and we'll have a new president, and everyone can bitch about him next. But you know what will have changed? People in Iraq will have more freedom than they've had in a good long time. You'll excuse me if I'm not sorry that that happened. We helped people out, and that's really all I care about.