europe, their view Options

[Vader]

i see there view as,
they wnat to get rid of terrorists also, but they dont want to lose ppl or spend the money so they go and said there against the war but really there just too fuckin lazy to get there hands dirty so they sit back and let us do there do there dirty work cause they know if they say there against it were gonna do it anyways so basically, next time they want help for anything i think the us should just go and and say fuck you guys

[cypher]

The war in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism or our fight against it (at least initially). Al Queada hated Iraq more than we did because of their progressive views and practices of Islam. There is a line of thought that if we had never invaded Iraq the country would never been susceptible to the Al Queada incursion.

The view from Europe is that we had no justification to invade Iraq in the first place and because we did, we put millions of people at risk of death that should have never been in that position.

My wife works for a multi-national corporation and I have been fortunate to get the views from India, Pakistan, Ireland, England, Portugal, Canada, France, and Italy during dinner meetings.

The ironic thing about all of this is that we had absolutely crippled Iraq through ecenomic sanctions and if we really hated Islam, we could have tightened the noose on their illegal oil exports and driven the entire country into civil war. Unfortunately, we invaded a country that was completely incapable of defending itself and thus looked like a villian to Islam in the process. Now we are fighting unknown enemies in invisible places, losing American citizens every day.

During my Poly Sci classes in college the professor would say repeatedly, 'The devil you know beats the devil you can't see any day.' We had a devil we knew in Iraq and we were foolish. That's what you get with a president and his sub 100 IQ.

Cypher