Wow! You stunned my by your first point. Touche! It's true that it had happened in the past and no one will really ever know if the Spanards did blow up the Maine or not. And it's a good parallel to what happened with Iraq today. But after that you TOTALLY went downhill. I don't even know where to begin with all the wrong things you posted after that.
2nd paragraph: You are right about the fact that Saddam did host terror camps and give resources to all kinds of Islamic fundimentalist groups. Yet I find those that bring this up, only use this to prop thier GOP favorite and really have little care in the world for wanting to defend Israel from the terrorists that Saddam supported let alone to actually attack those Jihadists.
3rd paragraph: If you actually believe that we will be successfull in bringing Democracy to Iraq (which is ironic since Democracy is a government that values a level of freedom that we do not enjoy since we are a Consitutional Republic) then you have no sense of the history of that former territory of Babalyon (can't spell, I know)
4th paragraph: I thought you said you fought in Vietnam? Shame on you for not knowing this, if that is true, because the reason why we lost had little or nothing (really) to do with any casualties we suffered. It was blatent tactical blundering. We had enough men and material there to form a few lines streaching from the East Vietnam border to the West Vietnam border and we could have walked to China wiping out all resistance along the way. But what did we do? We engaged in bombing runs that pushed the North Vietnamese resistance to the point of breaking and then stopped. We air lifted men and equipment into mile X mile sections of North Vietnamese held territory, clear the enemy found there, and then air lift those troops out. Many of the men on those missions told how they could see the Vietnamese swarming back into the section of cleared territory as they were being pulled out of a mission 'Well Done'.
5th paragraph: You know, when Clinton attacked and tried to kill Osama back in '98 all of you GOPhers were saying, "Oh, he is just wagging the dog!", "This Osama guy isn't a serious threat anyway." Have ANY of you loudmouths taken ANY responsibility for your ignorance and apologized to the rest of the US for making little of a serious threat and give the man credit for trying? No.
Also, you should read my post about how I had a better plan than George Bush did. I think it's great that Saddam is gone, but the blundering way he went about doing so really F*<ked us ALL over.
And also, I am always weary of those who talk about Socialism being this terrible tyrany. Because for anyone that would crack and book instead of a beer (but I will admit it's not bad to do both at the same time), you would know that Socialism goes together with Democracy like chocolate and peanut butter. Just ask Canada, the LOVE Rieces Peanut Butter Cups! And you know what ELSE they love? Thier HEALTHCARE SYSTEM! Yes they do, I talk to MANY of them since I live only about an hour away from the border. The ONLY complaint they have about it, is that because of our Capitolistic system, we have most of the best talent in medicine here abusing our system to rape us all of as much money as possible! You know if there wern't so many people as blind and one sided, black and white, they have figured everything out that all men that has lived,or will ever live, on this Earth, then we might be able to PICK AND CHOOSE peieces of all walks of Philosophy and Ideaology that has the desired effects that we, as a whole of people, want. But instead, everyone is mesmerized by the TV into believing the hype and image of thier particular party. The 2 main parties this country has have polarized every issue into 2 equal and opposite extreme ends of a connecting sliding scale in between. That is the VERY DEFINITION of TWO DIMENSIONAL thinking!
EXPAND YOUR HORIZIONS AND DON'T SETTLE FOR LESS FROM YOURSELF! YOU ARE BETTER THAN THAT!