email to President Bush

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Ahem. I do not want to have to remove any more personal attacks on this thread - separate the argument from the person please.

Dunc

Thank you, Dunc.

Bush is probably gonna start World War III.

I sent hate mail to Bush once...I got in trouble for it.

But my mom is an a*****e.

In case anyone is interested, I just looked up the current body count of Iraqi civilians killed by the US intervention. For the minimum it is 17,384 dead and for he maximum it is 19,770 dead.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

Since the start of the war, there have been 1553 deaths of American soldiers. Even more horrible is 1086 of these deaths ocurred since the capture of Saddam Hussein, and there have been 121 since George W. Bush was elected a second time.

http://icasualties.org/oif/ and http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

*Sighs.* We've all seen the history channel documentries of vietnam and korea.

In vietnam civilians were made to strap on bombs and walk up to U.S. soldiers to beg for food, water, etc. They were detonated in the middle of the soldiers. Eventually the U.S. soldiers had to say "Don't move, or we'll have to shoot."

In Iraq the regime we ousted is using guerilla tactics against the U.S. without regard to the innocent bystanders it harms. At least you believe that there have been murders, because if you got one of the terrorists on here posting they would say that none of those deaths were uncalled for.

Does anyone know how many civilians a year were killed in iraq before the U.S. invaded?

If WWIII is started, it won't be "Just because of Bush." I can guarentee you that it will be because some third world country got trigger happy with some U.S.S.R. nuke. We all know which one I'm talking about.

Please, listen to reason. Clinton was put on trial for having sex in the whitehouse, Bush would have been put on trial for killing 20K people, the truth is, he hasn't.

If a foreign contry invaded and conquered the U.S., i would hope and expect that patriotic Americans would create guerilla groups to attack the conqueror. I'd like to think that I would join one. If I did, I would not only kill the invaders, but also any American who cooperated with them. I would consider this to be a patriotic act - just as I consider those Iraqis fighting us to be patriots. Since moral right is on their side, I hope they win.

Ed, you're not really describing the situation accurately. I don't think "conquer" is the best choice of word.

How can you say so certainly where the moral right lies, it's a complicated situation? I can understand why some Iraqis choose to fight, I can also understand why many have welcomed the removal of the previous regime. I can also guess at many of the motives for Bush's actions, that serve the interests of your country. Morality is rather a subjective measure, but I'd suggest that your comments in relation to "winning" are rather immoral .

Putting aside all arguments of whether the US should have invaded, the fact is that to withdraw now would be very difficult to justify. What do you think the consequences would be?

Bush (now) says we went into Iraq to remove Sadaam from power. We did that. We should leave.

There can be no peace in Iraq as long as we have armed forces there. Whatever happens, if we leave there is a chance for peace. If we stay, there isn't.

It is not immoral to want Iraqis to win their freedom from our occupying forces. I repeat it again: I hope they succeed, and force us to withdraw with our tail between our legs.