Originally posted by tour96se: caltour..alot of good your(and other peoples) dissent and dissatisfaction is doing to persuade the gov't to end the war..
^^^ This kind of thinking scares me, more than any insurgent or terrorist. Why? It says you believe there is really no point in opposing the war, because we ordinary people can't really influence the government. It says you think our little experiment with democracy is over, and it failed. It means the Overlords are in full control, and we ordinary people had better get over it. Sounds like a Bulgarian talking, not an American.
And you are wrong about we war critics trying to "persuade the government to end the war." Most of us think that would be a very bad idea. It might be in our short-term best interest to end the war before Iraq is secured and stable (save U.S. troop's lives, and lots of taxpayers' money), but in the long run it would leave Iraq open to domination by the jihadis nutjobs that we have attracted there. That would probably be worse (for everyone, Americans and Iraqis alike) than Saddam ever was.
