You're right, Hall....I am no expert(sure sounds like you are though!

). But have I been there myself? Yes. Am I in the military? Yes. I'm a United States Marine, and have been for the past 4 years. Do I know MORE than you about the general feeling of the Iraqi's because my life and my brothers life has revolved around constant deployments (and training for deploying) to that country for the last 4 1/2 years, YES, it absolutely does. Just as I would not wander into your area of expertise and try and give you a lesson on it, I encourage you to do the same. Go ahead and state opinions on the matter all you want, but don't go out on a limb and try and state facts that you know NOTHING other than what you hear on CNN and MSNBC. Thanks.
I don't think that you read my statement when I said;
"The truth is that they DO want (did want) us there and they ARE thankful for what we've done for them. Do they want the violence to end? Of course they do. Do they want to take care of their country themselves now that we've ousted Saddam? Of course they do. But to claim that they "don't want us there" as a reason for why we should've never gone in the first place is a fallacy."
Hopefully you've finally read it now, and now understand that your last post is meaningless. Of course countries don't want to be occupied. Everyone wishes that they could take care of things themselves, but you know what THEY CAN'T! A country that loves our occupation: South Korea. Good enough for you? If we weren't there North Korea would've been ruling that piece of land to their South ever since the Korean War. Don't you read your history, Hall? Would they prefer it otherwise? Sure, they probably would, but is it necessary for their survival as a sovereign nation, that we're there? You're gosh darn right it is. The Jews also enjoyed American occupation of Germany in the 40's. Call me a liar, PLEASE! And...YOU LIBERALS WON'T SHUTUP ABOUT DARFUR (I'm sure they'd like our occupation)! Am I wrong? I'm ready for you to call me a liar, you moral compass of a man, you.
P.S. I'm glad that you can see into the future, hall. You, Dom, and A$$attack should all get together sometime, I'm sure it'd be a magical experience. You guys could tell the future, make up stories about the past, and have absolutely NO IDEA about what's going on the present, TOGETHER! How cool would that be?
Andy Lippert