OK, there are a number of reasons I don't want this country to go to war with Iraq.

1) I don't know if any of you heard this until recently, but supposedly Saddam tried to kill George Bush Sr. while he was in office. That in and of itself screams of a child trying to defend his father... Now that he's grown it hasn't seemed to have gone away. It all seems something to stupid to drag the entire country into. (I never heard about the attempt on former Pres. Bush's life before last week, any one who heard about it in the early nineties please let me know)

2) Our current President Bush's cabinate members are almost entirely made up of ex members of his father's staff. I don't perticularlly charish the idea of simply feeding these people's egos by sending our people out to die. I don't care what they did in the past, I think they did right then.

Who are we to decide who is evil? If we decide to go to war with Iraq based on the fact that we feel Saddam is evil, how are we better than Al Quida and the others that feel America is evil?

4) Control for whatever reason. We don't have any right to that land. The little oil that is there should stay for the people that live there. Sure they may not hate us as much as other middle eastern countries (the common people, not the government), but they should still have the right to do what they can to benifit their own culture without our medeling.

5) Iraq doesn't have nuclear technology right now. People are assuming the they will in five to twenty years from now. Is that an excuse to destroy them? What about Pakistan that currently has the technology? Or India? Why don't we take out Iran instead, they're a larger threat to our country.

6)Well, a recently married friend of Darkstorm's and mine is in one of the top ten tank units in the US. And tanks a pretty much death traps. He was just recently moved to a live unit which really sucks, he's on 48 hour notice now and he and his fiance had to push their wedding date up six months because of it. I don't want this to sound like a "Don't kill my friend even though he knew what he was getting into" sort of thing. I would just perfer he not have to sacrifice his life for something so stupid.

7) (this is the biggest reason for me) Saddam has done nothing this time. Yes, in the past he asked for it, but this time he did nothign wrong. He even agreed to allow the UN weapon inspectors back in. Now if he had done something recently to warrant an attack I would be all for it, but as of right now he did nothing. I say, next time he decides that it is necessary to try to take over an ally, beat his ass. But for the moment, leave him be.

Now, I'm not saying all war is wrong, I'm just saying that this perticular one is.