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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (134995)	5/30/2004 6:49:20 PM
From: quehubo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Have you served in the US military? I did and I can tell you that many people who served did so for the same reason I did. Patriotic Americans have a sense of duty and honor to serve the country as Congress and/or the President sees fit while in exchange for these services the volunteer learns skills to enable them to get a start on a career. Presently we are training many people who are learning skills that they can transfer to others, killing Islamofascists while trying to bring Islam forward numerous centuries into the 21st century. This is a skill we will to become very good at because their are way too many seeking to roll back the progress we made since the Crusades. You can ignore the threats Saddam posed before his demise both existing and potential. I choose not to and so did the US Congress. Mr. Tillman accomplished what he wanted, he wanted to serve his country. It is not uncommon for people in the military to die from unfortunate accidents such as friendly fire. Wait time will prove me right, their will be tremendous bloodshed in the Mideast over the next several years. Oil consuming nations wont be held hostage to the attacks of Islamofascists. They will be hunted down and exterminated. Iran will be the next nation suffering a wake up call.

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (134995)	5/31/2004 5:50:57 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Forget Iraq for a moment. Think Afghanistan. What is the point of the US jumping on the side of some warlord then another ? There are some people who like the life style of the soldier. They surrender their moral judgement. They are willing to kill, and accept the risk of being killed. They exist in all societies. And what is the alternative? The warlords, like it or not, are the current regional power centers in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is not Iraq.. It doesn't have an inherently intact infrastructure. Hell, it doesn't even have power outside of the cities. Thus, in factoring the equation between liberty and order, order is currently taking precedence. And to maintain order without being required to deploy hundreds of thousands of forces to that country, we temporarily rely upon the warlords, pitting one against the other politically, and tying all of them together by having them all "suckle" from the same financit "teat", the United States and UN aid organizations. Lest you choose to forget, Afghanistan is one of the few nations that has been bombed OUT of the stone age. Iraq is a totally different situation, with natural and economic resources that can, over time, be harnessed to foster its economic restructuring. Hawk