posted on Jun, 18 2004 @ 01:16 PM
This is not the time to leave, but rather the time to harden our resolve. If we pull out now, those who have already died fighting this terrorist
garbage will have given their lives in vain. Say it's for oil. For power. For personal gain of any kind and I will say that I don't give a damn
what it's for. I know why I support it. I don't care if Saddam had a bucket of golf balls and a slingshot, he had to go. He was a threat to the
global community that the UN was never going to stop. I don't care if he was directly involved with terrorism or merely funded it. I write a check
for cancer research, I'm involved. He writes a check for terrorism, he's involved. It's that simple. I don't believe everything that Bush and
our government say, but I do believe one thing that has not been disputed by any of the heads of various countries that have been involved. These
people want to kill us. Not because of Abu Ghraib or Gitmo or our policy in Iraq, but because we are Americans. They've said it time and time again
in their press releases. They want to kill any and all Americans wherever they can find us in the world. If they could, they'd come into your house
and kill you and your children and not even bat an eye over it. They were raised to hate us and programmed to want us dead and are willing not only
to execute us to do it, but also to kill themselves in the commission of these attacks if necessary.
We must not leave. We must stay and venture even further toward busting up this ring of criminals before they get their boot completely on our
throat. We are one of the most obnoxious, in-your-face countries on the planet, and if we step back from this it will hurt us for all time. They
won't stop because of an election. They won't stop because of anyone's troops pulling out. They won't stop ever because as long as there is one
American left alive, their jihad will continue. I agree the contractors should go, the civillians should go. But for this I think we should put even
MORE boots on the ground over there and start some MAJOR stomping. JMO.