Woah guys, gotta quit jumping the gun on the trying to bite my head off. I just really want to know as much about all this as I can, but it seems like it's impossible to get any unbiased information, muchless have a discussion without people chewing eachother's heads off.

As for our staying in Iraq. I can see why we have to stay there now, because if we left the place would be a total disaster. But why did we go charging in there in the first place? Weren't we susposed to be looking for the people behind 9-11?

In reagards to the media, why leave them out? They're taking just as big a risk being there, as the soldiers are, if not more so because not only are they not adaquately able to defend themselves. Not all the media is there to "twist" a story into something it's not. Some people simply want to document the carnage of the war for the sake of documentation, perhaps to later show people could learn from it in the future. As people have done with previous wars.

I honestly think Saddam got exactly what he deserved. Using Mustard Gas on civilians is a pretty awful thing to do, but whatever happend to Bin Laden? I thought we were susposed to be relentlessly tracking him down for the most recent, and devistating terrorist attack on the U.S. ?

I myself come from a family of military serving men. My grandfather was a military man (Sgt Major U.S. Air Force), as was my father (started as Infantry then became a Ranger). So don't go accusing me of being so anti-military, I have no probelm with the men and women that serve this country, but I think a few of them, can get a little carried away with violence sometimes, considering we're trying to look bigger than that as a nation. But I'm aware that that's a part of war, especially when the enemy doesn't abide by your code of ethics, and rules of engagement.