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To: TigerPaw who wrote (238892)6/26/2005 2:18:12 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572621
 
American soldiers are fighting a war in Iraq.

I don't think you can call it fighting a war unless they have a clue what the goal is. I'm not sure what the word is for driving around getting bombed and occasionally destroying a city full of civilians. It's certainly carnage, but it's not war.


Like I said to Elroy, it may not be war in the classical sense but nonetheless, its war:

1 a (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such armed conflict (3) : STATE OF WAR b : the art or science of warfare c (1) obsolete : weapons and equipment for war (2) archaic : soldiers armed and equipped for war
2 a : a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism b : a struggle or competition between opposing forces or for a particular end <a class war> <a war against disease>