[go panthers!!!]

Well sometimes things don't always go as planned...and besides we went there with one idea in our mind-- to fix the problems in Afganistan--but when we got that under control, we realized that there was a worse problem in Iraq.

See it's kind of like this...
If you grow up in an area like inner-city new york for instance, where it's ok to lie, cheat, steal, do drugs, get high, and kill people just to survive, then chances are when you grow up you would follow those same examples. Why? Just because all the people you looked upto your whole life did it. However if you live in a place like Eastern KY-- people here are honest and work to get what they want. for the most part. Alot of people believe in God and alot of children are raised by parents who do a great job taking care of them and raising them and making sure they get a good education.

So relating it back to Iraq. It would be like putting a small police force in one neighborhood of the Inner-city New York area as described above. You would make that certain street a better place to live, but would it solve the problem? No chance.
Just because you have to follow the law on 43rd Street-- hey boys lets get wild down at 5th avenue tonight* --people will just move to a different area and keep doing what they originally were just to get by with it.

So in Iraq-- we kicked the terrorists out of Afganistan, but turns out Saddam Hussain supports them in Iraq. So all the terrorists did was just pack up and relocate. Thats temporarily stopping the problem, not fixing it.

Then we get to Iraq and try to get the situation there under control, but turns out it was alot worse than we expected. The people there were being brutally controlled and forced to respond to the dictator's every wish. "oh so you want to rebel?" "well how bout just show up here tommorow and we'll just shoot you. sorry bout your luck"
See life doesn't work like that. I mean it does, but that doesn't mean it's fair.

Anyways, now the only way to stop the terrorists is to get rid of Saddam Hussain. The problem is that he seems to have a loyal following of about half his country. You know how when you keep doing something over and over that you're just convinced it's right? Well thats probably what happened to them. But then the soldiers were kind of obligated to fight. Now not only has it become a matter of freedom, it's also a matter of pride. Sure, our soldiers could have just walked out at any given time, but what kind of message would it give the terrorists if America just walks out and leaves??
It would be like if you're playin in a close basketball game and the other team is down by 2 and they decide to forfeit. You would be happy and be like see? they can't handle the pressure.
If any terrorist group got that in their head about America, well there's a good chance we would all be dead by now.

There's also that saying that "hindsight is always 20/20..." Looking back, to alot of people it seems we have sacrificed alot of time, money, and we let so many soldiers die. Well by being a soldier, you know you are putting yourself at a risk to die, but it's for our country. Anybody who does anything for our armed forces, navy, or whatever has my complete respect...because everything we take for granted today might not even be here for us if it wasn't for them.

But about Iraq-- so one problem snowballs into another and now we're there so we have to get the job done right.