i understand your worry as i understand the worry every relative of soldiers on both sides and i really hope that as many relatives as possible get their sons, daughers, husbands etc. back home unwounded.
but though there are some points in your post i want to critic.
1. it was very clear that iraq wouldn't reveal all their weapons to the weapons inspectors as soon as bush declared to disarm iraq by military force. it is easy to destroy an enemy when you know where he stories which weapons and where his forces are stationed. this was the failure of george bush and his men (powell, rumsfeld,...)
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The good thing about taking out Saddam is that we can lift sanctions against Iraq and give the 70% of the population who lived in poverty and fear, the help and medical attention they need
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you forgot that another good thing is that america can test new weapons, and get rid of their old ones which means that they have to reproduce their used weapons- as i suppose you know that the american industry depends on weapon preoduction by ~60%- which means that the u.s. economy can sneak out of their crisis
2.1. don't forget about the oil...
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It will also stop the palestinian suicide terrorists from receiving blood money and explosives for their bombing campaign against Israel. hopefully the Usa and the UK will deliver on their promise to create a viable Palestinian state by 2005.
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this means that sharon can continue peacefully the violent settling in palestenian territory which he could only start cause bush backed him up- the United Nations protested wildly against that- thanx georgy!
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Germany's right wing national parties are gaining a stronghold in Eastern Germany.
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we (austria) have a black-blue center-right coalition government- germany's government is center-left (red-green)...
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The next time there is another European war, The UK and the USA may decide not to help.
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i know you brits don't like the sad fact that GB belongs to EUROPE! please name a country and one reason to fight a war against a country of the EU- yet there is a war fought on european territory but nobody cares about chechnia (sorry for the spelling) like nobody cares about palestina
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In Kosovo, when the USA/UK went in to free the moslems, there was no anti war protests.
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it wasn't usa/uk- it was the UNO (even austrian soldiers fought there although we have a charta of independency) and there was a reason!!! and if usa/uk went to free the palestenians instead of the iraqis there wouldn't have been demonstrations and that would have been backed up by the UN
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Another thing, the majority of anti war protestors are women who brain wash their kids by taking them to anti war marches. Just think that if you were muslim, you would be a second class citizen with no voting rights , a hubby who coould have ten wifes and have had female circumcision carried out.
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now this statement makes me go wild although i'm male! over here it's not only stupid "women who brainwash their kids"- it's more than 85% of the population!!! and i think it's a matter of respect and not even necesseary to talk about that men and women are to be treated at least equally!!!!!!!!!!! by saying the thing with muslems 1. you mix up politics and religion 2. prove your missing knowledge about the muslim religion! polygamy was allowed to lower the women's poverty rate- it still is allowed in some arab countries. the woman certainly has the right to divorce if her husband decides to take another wife. "cheating" (which even includes holding hands with another man/woman) is strictly forbidden for both sexes. in some cases muslim wives are rated higher by men than women are rated here: they don't blame women for the "original sin" and women are can get priests (unlike in the roman catholic creed), there was nothing like inquisition or witch-slaughtering in the muslim history and the moslem chruch NEVER DOUBTED THAT WOMEN HAVE A SOUL!!!!!!!