Before today I was begining to question why we were in Iraq. I had supported the decision thinking that setting up a democracy is a good thing and that Saddam was bad for what I thought was just gassing his people. I knew the argument that the people in Iraq hated us because I have heard from my friend who was deployed in Iraq and from other sources that they do actually like us there because we protect them. But my loyalty was beggining to fade, with the biased liberal and conservative news programs, I didn't know what to think.

That is until I talked to Specialist Poggi today.

Poggi, works intel for the U.S army and gave me information about Saddams goverment, and about the "W.M.D's" that the news never gave me. Something that would deffiantly make people support the war more.

In America we Jail people who rape, who murder, who touch little boys and do things of that nature. Well Saddam decided he would keep those people in his arsenal and when a village acts up he would send those murders those rapists (sp?) and let them do what they do best, crime.

This is fucked up and deserved to be stopped. Any leader who is willing to do this should be destroyed and that is a good enough reason for me to justify us going in. That and that there were W.M.D's in Iraq, it be foolish to think they weren't working on it. But they moved them before we got there, however that is an argument for another time.

But why are we still in Iraq then? Well Specialist Poggi expalined this to me to. Their are 5 phases to war, the first 2 being preparation. The 3rd, what we do best, completely destroy the opposing force (which we did in less then a month) and the 4th is reconstruction. It is not the U.S's job to do the 4th it is the U.N's... but they suck.

So here we are waiting for a nation to get on it's feet and although the news programs would never tell you everything is going pretty well. 700-750 troops have died after the fighting and being that the force is 140,000 that's not that many. EDIT: Of course, I thought it would be inferred. All the men and women that died are heroes. But in a war people are going to die, that's why you have to look at the number. It be nice if theirwas no war, ever, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon.

Here is the most suprising thing "the long never ending war" is probably going to end in 3-6 years. Iraq's cops have already taken down the 2nd most powerful terroist all by themselves. Things are looking up.

But the news won't tell you that.

Go ahead bash me for being a bit conservative, for making many spelling mistakes. This was done very quickly as I have places to go but just thought all you Bush haters should know you are living in ignorance, only taking information from once source.