I still have faith enough to believe that "Oil" wasn't the deciding factor. Whenever I look at the gas pump, I waver in that faith but.. I keep thinking "We can grow our own gasoline, why is it still so high?"

As far as why Britain, or any other country joining? Well, the way I see it is this. Even when its a poor choice, if you cannot talk your best friend out of a self destructive mess you join him to see to it that he doesn't do to much damage.

Perhaps Britain joined to keep tabs on the USA and make sure, to the best of their ability, that we do not screw the pooch to badly.

As I said, If they couldn't talk us out of it, then being friends it was their obligation to help keep it as civil as possible.

*shrugs*

Simplistic, but I bet its a fair assessment.

I can honestly say that I appreciate the soldiers.

There are people over there that hate all westerners for no real reason and would kill us all if they had the chance. Those soldiers, whether they are Bulgarian, Romanian, UK-ian or USA-ian, are killing those bad people and keeping them from having hatefull little children. It will all turn out for the best, even if it WAS unjustified, good things will happen soon I think.

Britain indeed screwed up big time over there, but you cant quite blame em. I think it was the responsibilty of all of us to act. But we didnt.

Really, its just a group that f**ks it all up for the others there. Most people i've met that came from those country's are really friendly and open. Just as in every culture it are the small minority's that screw it for all of us.

I have long since stopped trying to argue with any one over this particular issue for two reasons: 1) I don't have a solid opinion on the matter 2) each arguement for and against it cancel each other out, eg. there werent any weapons of mass destruction over there, we shouldn't have gone. Yes we should have because we got rid of a tyrant. See each arguement cancels another out, just too hard to explain why or why not. We should be arguing over what we are going to do now we are over there.

"Terrorists" is a word that gets thrown around way too much. Let's stick with "assholes" instead. It makes is seem like SO many more people deserve to die. Which they do... Assholes....

Seriously though, this is going to sound harsh, but I've got two things relating to today's news.

1. Muslims need to stop hating ppl and get over it. We need to get out of Iraq and start worrying about assholes in N. Korea and Iran, with thier nukes and crap.
2. Illegal immigrants need to go the f*ck home and stop breaking or laws. We can't support everyone: if people in other countries are dying, let them ask us how to make THEIR country prosperous like ours and don't get all pissed when we tell them what to change. Confucius said: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." So instead of sending money and food one-at-a-time and having them come over here, we go over THERE and we teach them how to get thier own food and how to get thier sh*t together.

Yesterday, someone told me that we ought to let anyone and everyone who wants in into the country without any system and let them just cross the borders and such. Then we ought to raise taxes, stop spending on the defense budget and give those people the extra money the government will have gained. That is BULL---SH*T!