In support or not....

[TMAN]

this show of support comes because of the binary nature of the poll. If there was another option- lets call it "I support the troops but not the ideals" the numbers would change dramatically according to these posts.

oem_guy_2002, the indecisiveness amongst the protesters about how to deal with Saddam is shared amongst all citizens. No one exactly wants to babysit another budding country but then nobody wants a bastard like Saddam in power. As for dropping a nuke on Mecca... I pray that your views aren't represented by your statesmen. See Dr. Strangelove for details.

[azscary]

See Dr. Strangelove for details.

I still have visions of that cowboy riding that bomb down.

[CMT]

All I can say is I support my country I dont always agree but I support because no matter whats its MY country

[Mac Medic]

Sorry buddy, I'm not indecisive at all, I know exactly how to deal with this murderer, KILL HIM and His supporters. Thats the only way to deal with him once and for all. Promote a democratic process and allow the araqi people some freedom. What's wrong with that. Sure we could have appeased him for another 12 years but at what cost?. Maybe not the cost of American lives, but the lives of innocent iraqi Women and Children are no less important. When Clinton went into Kosovo and the Republicans opposed him, I was as vocal as I could be to try to get republican support for our involvement. Now the tables are turned and the Dems have to oppose a supposedly "conservative" president, instead of supporting the victims of Saddam. The UN appeased this Guy for 12 years, and where did it get us?. Did he stop murdering?, did he disarm?. Just how would the peace niks propose we deal with him if not death. Nuke Mecca?. Why not. We don't have a national religion here, the closest thing we have is the capitalist religion. The symbol of which were the Twin Towers. Muslims brought them to the earth, so I say we send their symbol back to the earth. Nuke Mecca.

[onearmpprhngr]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Saddam a Ba'ath muslim? If so, doesn't that add a fourth clan/tribe/faction to the mix?

[TMAN]

he is sunni to my knowledge. Ba'ath is his democratic political party of absolutely no external or internal opposition. But there are divisions within the divisions like anywhere in the world. The difference is how much blood each side would love to spill.

[TimPoet]

When we occupied Japan, my mother's homeland and my birthplace, they said Asian nation's just couldn't become democracies too. Well, umm, wisdom is vindicated by her children.
Humans love freedom, no matter where they live or come from and Iraq will be the first Arab democracy and will spread the infection like wildfire.

[Xayd]

That actually may not be the case.

There's a similar situation going on in Kuwait, which basically has nothing to fear now that it has US protection.

About half of the country is westernized, send their kids to western universities, drive western cars, etc. The other half is staunchly conservative and staunchly supportive of their monarchy due to their muslim faith.

In effect it's a country that could be whatever it wanted to be, and is split down the middle.

The impression I've heard from reporters who've been there is a country that's "like a teenager in the beginning of it's social contact with the rest of the world, it's not quite sure what it wants to be".

People in the states often have a hard time believing it, but not every country WANTS our particular brand of democracy .

[TimPoet]

Kuwait will follow Iraq into democracy.