On March 17th, 2003, President Bush has finally decided to treat Iraq with aggressive actions. He is, or will be declaring war on Iraq if Saddam HUsine does not evacutate the country in less than 48 hours. What do you think of this? Without the support of the world, did our president make an unrational decision?

President Bush is a very smart man. He is not capable of unrational thoughts or decision making.

Keep the faith and have a little heart. You'll see things will go well and we can get back to the basics of helping people throughout the world like we have always done, and put the military problems behind us.

Oh that's ok Billy -

But thanks for clearing it up. On my side, sometimes I am reading late at night and I'm half asleep or my eyes are slits and I'm not seeing properly.

Or sometimes I'm just speedreading through it and I might miss something, one important word here or there.

Anyone who is here and is doing good will not have a problem in the U.S. I know plenty of Iranians and Pakistanis. Those I know are not creating problems or issues. The U.S. has to sort out the tricksters and get them out of the country.

i agree with sinope that war is counter productive. we're basically giving the terroists a reason to attack us. Since we're attacking their country for no real important reason if you ask me, they have the same rights to counter attack us. it's a game PERIOD. and though we're supposed the cat, the bigger one, the supposedly more powerful one, the mouse will find a way to escape us. but in this game, people will die! our soldiers, their soldiers, our civilians maybe, and their civilians defintely! what's the point of this war? O yes, to annilate Saddam, but what if we don't catch him? After destroying the whole country and launching hundreds of bombs, after thousands have died, what if we don't catch him? what's going to happen then? i wonder if our commander in chief can answer that....

hooray for the offensive!
hooray for the US!
hooray for our soilders!
hooray! hooray!

does anyone else think its wierd that after his "48 hour" speech a while back, the terror alert immediately rose to HIGH? as in: 'look my fellow americans, if we do go to war there MAY..may... mayyyy be terrorists attacks'? i thought we were trying to stop terrorism! what.

my point you ask? don't provoke them. don't give them justification. don't play their game. don't give them a reason. don't lose the moral high ground.

bush constantly says suddam is playing the "cat and mouse" game. BUSH IS PLAYING TOO! this isn't a f***** game!

war is not the solution here. if you can send 300,000 of our brothers, husbands and fathers to die for your game.... you should be able to send 300,000 inspectors.

i don't know what to do anymore. what's done is done. i hope you win bush. just know, you very well may have started world war three.

madsaddam

I've become a target as of late for my cutting and pasting, truth is I have too much to share with too many people. That was a letter from a student at a University(which I'll not name) named Rania Kash, not myself, sorry if I confused you. There are many letters like that, alot of people stating they fear for their families and themselves because even here in the USA there are people watching them. And many of them stating it does not matter, they have to speak out against Saddam. It sort of makes you think, even here in the USA there are loyalists who still support Saddam keeping an eye on Iraqi refugees, I think if this war happens we all need to keep our eyes open.

BillyBario,

Thanks for sharing the personal details of your life with us.

We are glad you and your family are safe, and we are happy to have your parents and you and your brother here in New England.

I don't think Saddam even should be entitled to 24 hours warning.

But Bush is a gentleman, and he wanted to let Saddam know that if he truly wanted to save lives of Iraqi people, then all he had to do was to leave.

If Saddam truly loved his country, truly loved his people, then he would have been willing to leave so improvements could be made.

Saddam is for one person and one person only - himself.

Dear All,

I am writing this email after a lot of deliberation about whether I have the right to use
my strange and unique position (within our group) to argue the case FOR an invasion in
Iraq. But in the end I have decided that I have more to lose if I keep quiet.

Firstly, my parents, my family, are from Iraq. My parents fled from Iraq some 23 years
ago leaving everything and everyone behind when at that point 17 of our relatives had
been "disappeared" or imprisoned for no reason whatsoever. They sought refuge in
Kuwait for 4 years, but once again were forced to flee with us (my brother and I) in
tow when Saddam had the Kuwaitis deport the Iraqi men back to Iraq. On the border
he had these returnees shot dead.

I want to ask those who support the anti - "war" movement (apart from pacifists – that is
a totally different situation) their motives and reasoning behind such support. You may
feel that America is trying to blind you from seeing the truth about their real reasons for
an invasion. I must argue that in fact, you are still blind to the bigger truths in Iraq. I
must ask you to consider the following questions:

Saddam has murdered more than a million Iraqis over the past 30 years, are you
willing to allow him to kill another million Iraqis?
Out of a population of 20 million, 4 million Iraqis have been forced to flee their
country during Saddam’s reign. Are you willing to ignore the real and present
danger that caused so many people to leave their homes and families?
Saddam rules Iraq using fear – he regularly imprisons, executes and tortures the
mass population for no reason whatsoever – this may be hard to believe and you
may not even appreciate the extent of such barbaric acts, but believe me you will
be hard pressed to find a family in Iraq who have not had a son/father/brother
killed, imprisoned, tortured and/or "disappeared" due to Saddam’s regime. What
has been stopping you from taking to the streets to protest against such blatant
crimes against humanity in the past?
Saddam gassed thousands of political prisoners in one of his campaigns to
"cleanse" prisons – why are you not protesting against this barbaric act?
An example of the dictator’s policy you are trying to save - Saddam has made a
law to give excuse to any man to rape a female relative and then murder her in
the name of adultery. Do you still want to march to keep him in power?

In some ways I do admire the movement because it proves what people can achieve
when they come together and speak out. Unfortunately for Iraq nobody spoke out
earlier.

Rania Kash

Oh hi Dr. No,

It is interesting isn't it, to see how different people see things differently.

I am very grateful to have the opportunity to say something to you about this matter.

First of all, we have an expression here in the U.S. that goes . . . "out of the mouths of babes" which of course means that sometimes young people can have the right answer.

Yes our country is young. But, no, you are not right about us being wrong because our country is young.

The way I see it is this: France, Germany, and other countries are very happy to sit on their behinds and their wallets and just let the U.S. and us U.S. citizens continue to shoulder the responsibilities that plague the world. And all the while, you paint yourselves as doing the better thing, taking the best road, so you say. I'm not certain right now what Russia, Putin's excuse is. When I figure that one out, I will tell you too.

My last name is Burdette. My father's father was from Normandy, France. My father's mother was from Germany. My mother's father was from Switzerland. My mother's mother was from England.

We are all from you. Our brains are of your descendants. Americans are everyone. Here we go: We are Africans, Albanian, Armenian, Austria, Belgian, Bosnians, British, Burmese, Canadian, Chinese, Denmark, Egyptian, Ethiopia, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Holland, Hungarian,Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Israeli, Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, Jordan, Lithuanian, Korean, Kurdish, Lebanese, Malaysian, Mongolian, Moroccan, Native American Indian, Nigerian, Norwegian, Pakistan, Phillipines, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Spanish, Swedish, Switzerland, Syrian, Tunisian, Turkish, Ugandan, Ukranian, Viet Namese, to name some I -personally- know.

Although I love visiting Europe, your region does not have the market of brains cornered. We are just as smart as you, and don't you ever forget it.

We are not psychics. We cannot see exactly how this will play out. But I think we can function with a high degree of certainty that the U.S. (and President Bush, and our citizens) will be proved right.

Bush has no right whatsoever to proclaim himself the champion of justice in the world. He is no champion and much less is he helping the world by taking such a precipitous and technically illegal move towards Iraq. His wrongful interpretation of the UN 1441 resolution added to the warmongers of his oval farmhouse is what represents the real threat to the world. The USA has the right to protect its interests, but not through the use of such irrational and primitive agressiveness. What is the problem? He made his case abouth Iraq having weapons of mas destruction, and now we found him giving ultimatums and seeking to oust Saddam Hussein from power. The UN 1441 resolution does not authorize regime change and the phrase "serious consequences" does not signify an automatic use of force as there must be first a meeting of the Security Council to determine what should be these "serious consequence". Of course, it is not necessarily war, nor idle and murderous sanctions that target the people before it can inflict any hindrance on the regime. But surely, and through the use of skillfull diplomacy, a solution can be found to this conflict. If the USA had been smart as France in keeping up its interests through diplomacy and not through agressive policies which show primitiveness in US policy making, than all the world would have had respect for it. Unfortunately, we found the USA to be a raw country, ignorant in diplomacy; and of course, bullying. We shall die because some homsteader from Crawford has lost his patience by waiting too long for the ransom he has demanded from the world that has become the hostage of this rampant cowboy! Veto to his murderous resolutions is the green light for humanity
VIVE LA FRANCE, VIVE LA HUMANITE!!

.... as if it honestly mattered. (sorry for sounding so cynical C.K.). somewhere i know that WE can make a difference and bring some good into this world.

it just sucks having a "leader" that has the vocabulary of an eighth grader. (no offense 8th graders).

hopefully, us youth even get the oppurtunity to have our voices listened to, before.....

i'm dullnce again he puts himself over this world and the UN

i'm interested in others' opinions though...