OHHHH, so it WASN'T our objective to get rid of Saddam Hussein?

I wish you Republicans would make up your minds. I'm getting damn tired of wasting paper rewriting these victory banners over and over again!

i believe only about 500 died trying to take out Saddam, the others have died trying to stabilize Iraq

Nice job Danielost. Next we should work on punctuation!

To the point though, they died to make the world a better place for the Iraqi people. Unfortunately, since the beginning that was impossible. If you replace a dictatorship with a democracy, you have the same problem that we had when slavery ended - a class of people with nothing, and no way to get anything due to the discrimination against them. Also, you have a class of people that have been oppressed for so many years, that they don't really know what to do with freedom except try to take everything they couldn't have before. It's very hard to compromise with a group like that.

Anyway, democracy is not easy. People like to think it is, but it's not. You have to learn what the system should be used for, and what powers the government should have.

i know that it isn't easy or safe.

but i am not the one advocating leaving them in the lurch.

in Washington's first term of office i believe he put down 5 revolts. because of the change in government. ie for the first 12 years we had a weak Central government. Washington represented the change to a strong Central government.

I don't think it's our job to decide who's revolting in Iraq, it's Iraq's job. So let's let them worry about it.