"Of the respondents [there were 944], 41 percent were in the regular Army, 25 percent were Marines, 17 percent were National Guard and 16 percent were Reserves. Forty-four percent said they were serving their second tour in Iraq, and about the same number said they had spent six to 12 months in Iraq."
http://www.zogby.com/templates/printsb.cfm?id=12734
And there's nothing we can do about it now.
Unless every news channel is lying and the few books I've read about the war (including the one I mentioned) are false and the newspapers are also lying, I have an idea of what the troops in Iraq are doing.
That's why we need to use economic and political influence, not military power, to set up a free market. Some sort of representative government would follow the economic prosperity that has already started, as you mentioned.
I agree, and this can be achieved with few troops at this point.
How much freedom do you think you'd enjoy under Islamic law? THAT'S how I'm protecting your freedoms. If we don't succeed in Iraq, it will embolden the terrorists, be used as propaganda that America is a "paper tiger" (bin Laden's words, not mine) and will actually create more terrorists. More terrorists = threat to your freedom.
Well I don't see our country being taken over by terrorists due to their lack of resources and manpower and weapons, and our massive military, etc., but terrorists attacks are still a threat. That's why we need to fight terrorists groups more like I said earlier. But the Iraqi insurgents aren't the same terrorists who attacked us, and they aren't even a threat to our home country, so I don't see how the war against Iraqi insurgents is protecting our freedom.
