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A couple of opinions/points in no particular order

1. I 100% support our military, every soldier -- but I think it's a nonsequitur to expect that supporting the troops and supporting their orders are the same thing.

2. The top ten list whatever thing is not by Dennis Miller (check Snopes.com, a common myth-debunking site with good credibility). That doesn't mean a lot, but people might have been less likely to accept it/pass it on without a famous name on it.

3. Food for thought, because I'm an admitted isolationist. Countries run by dictators or tyrannical regimes overthrow those leaders and fight for their own rights, throughout history. The countries of eastern Europe did it (Romania being famous for its brutal vicious leader Ceausescu). Countries in South America have done it. America did it. (Slight tangent, paraphrased from a quote I don't remember: The Vietnam war was a civil war, bound up in the cold war democratic vs. communist debate. What if the Spanish (to pick a random country) had come over during our Civil War, picked a side, and handed out canned foods and candy to the kids? )

I feel that Saddam Hussein has been proved to be a brutal, vicious, evil man. I pray that he will be stricken from the face of the Earth. But I question whether it is our responsibility alone to impose our timeline for that on the country and people of Iraq. (And maybe it's because I'm not keeping up, but I'm still not seeing the proof of the Al Qaeda - Sept. 11 - Iraq connection).

I will not march now, I will not stop traffic. I will make my opinion known firmly but quietly to those in power. I will support our troops. I will pray.

Greekgrrl

I just felt that this post was so great that it should be repeated. Thanks Greekgrrl!