I have the utmost respect for the troops who are in harms way. I just have minimal respect for the government who has placed them there. This war is, to a great extent, about oil and control. With regime change, who do you think we be in control of Iraq and thus their oil supplies? The U.S. has probably engaged in more "hostile takeovers" than any other country over the past 200 years, and we continue to do so.

Hussein is a tyrrant, but you do not give a tyrrant as wealthy, powerful and influencial as Saddam the option of vacating his premises voluntarily without repercussion as Bush offered him.

What's worse is the simple fact that Bush's popularity and potential for being elected predident (remember, he was not chosen "by the people for the people" the first time around) rests almost exclusively on the outcome of this war. I promise you that even those staunch Bush supporters would quickly turn their backs if this war were not to end in our favor, or if more lives than expected are lost. Talk about hypocricy!!!

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